Laravel not recognized after .htaccess changes - php

Here is the baffling sequence of events that just transpired.
1) I have a working Laravel installation, with an empty .htaccess file, all URLs work.
2) I add some rules to .htaccess just to play around a bit, then remove the rules.
3) Now I have an empty .htaccess again (so nothing has changed compared to step 1 above) but now no URLs work anymore except the homepage.
For example, you will see that http://jovansprojects.com/march_madness/ works (that's the root of the Laravel folder), using this route:
Route::get('/', 'HomeController#showWelcome');
But http://jovansprojects.com/march_madness/login does not work anymore, despite having worked normally before.
This is the relevant route:
Route::get('login', 'SessionsController#create');
Note that it doesn't throw a Laravel error, like a 'not found exception' - it simply doesn't seem to know Laravel is installed there at all.
I've tried clearing Artisan's cache according to some online suggestions but didn't help.
So, to sum up: .htaccess is exactly the same as it was before (empty) but it seems the server doesn't even know to ask Laravel to handle the URLs anymore, not beyond the homepage anyway.
These are the rules I added to, and then removed from, .htaccess (I wanted to redirect trailing slashes):
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /march_madness/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ $1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
I suspect that RewriteBase may have something to do with it, but after I deleted the rules why didn't it revert to the way it was?

It would seem that Laravel does need the "Front Controller" in .htaccess in order to be able to route "pretty" URLs (ie. without having to use index.php in the URL and rely on PATH_INFO).
So, at the minimum, something like the following would be required in the .htaccess file (probably in the root of your Laravel install):
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
It would seem that there were two .htaccess. Note that .htaccess files are inherited along the filesystem path. However, mod_rewrite (to which the directives above belong) is not inherited by default. So, if you enable the rewrite engine in a subdirectory then the mod_rewrite directives in the parent directory will be ignored.

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.htaccess Multiple Rewrite Rules with Extensions

So, I'm not very good with Apache config or .htaccess rewrite rules.... And I'm trying to do some modifications to how my localhost server works...
What I'm trying to do is return a 404 error on any request with the extension '.php'. If the uri does not have an extension, then route the request to 'ini.php'. If the uri contains an extension that isn't of '.php', then it should just follow normal procedures in fetching the file.
What I have now:
Rewrite Engine on
DirectorySlash off
RewriteCond $1 (.php)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L,NC,R=404]
RewriteCond $1 !^(.+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ini.php [L,NC]
My logic is that if it's not a .php, and it doesn't have an extension, then route it to ini.php. Otherwise it should route normally.
Right now it looks like the .php rule is working in returning 404 errors.. However, if a request for a path without an extension is received, it tries to route to ini.php and hits a 404 page. Is it maybe processing like the second rule and then hitting the first rule?
Anyways, can someone help me sort it out and give me some guidance on it? I tried google and a bunch of different solutions, but I couldn't find something that worked for this situation...
UPDATE:
I changed the code to the following and added ini.php to the DirectoryIndex settings in httpd:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.[php^\\/]+)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [L,NC,R=404]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[^\\/]+)$
RewriteRule ^.+$ / [L,NC]
Can you check if it looks alright?
I've turned on DirectorySlash again. Thanks.
This will do it:
RewrieEngine on
# 404 any URL ending .php (ignoring any query string)
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ - [R=404,L,NC]
# Rewrite any URL that does not contain a dot (.), and therefore has no extension, to ini.php
RewriteRule ^([^.]*)$ ini.php [END]
I am assuming it will go in a .htaccess file from what you said. It would need changing to go in the main config.
Don't turn DirectorySlash off. It's a security risk to do so (see the link) and it only applies to existing directories anyway so is not causing any problems for you. There is no space in RewriteEngine.

Laravel - How to remove index.php from Laravel in windows xampp

Problem:
my routes not working except the root home page, I'm searching for two days to find a solution to this problem and what I found that I should change .htaccess file but solutions didn't fix any for my case, at first the url localhost/quotes/public was working well with me, but at some point I'm not sure what is it this issue showed up
what I tried:
create another route and I made sure that no routes are working only
home route, still not working except home
tried to change OverrideMode on my XAMP from None to All, didn't fix any
tried to type manually localhost/quotes/public/index.php BOOM everything
works ..
my htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
working on:
Windows 10
XAMP
Laravel 5.2.35
The problem is that your .htaccess is rewriting everything to the frontcontroller, which is normally located at {host}/index.php. In your application however it is located at {host}/quotes/public/index.php.
So you have 2 options:
1. virtual host
Set up a virtual host in your XAMPP Apache that points ie. myapp.local to htdocs/quotes/public Here is an example of how to achieve this: how to create virtual host on XAMPP. (Don't forget to add the host to your hosts file and have it point to your local macine on 127.0.0.1) You can then access your application on myapp.local/whatever-route-you-define. Alternatively you forget about XAMMP and install the homestead virtual machine, which comes preconfigured for this.
2. rewrite rule
Change you rewrite rule to rewrite all requests to quotes/public/index.php in stead of index.php. I'm no htaccess expert, but I believe it should be as simple as changing this:
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
to this:
RewriteRule ^ quotes/public/index.php [L]
Do note that you'll still need to access your application trough localhost/quotes/public/whatever-route-you-define which is not ideal imo. Your dev version should be as close to your live version as possible, and if you start working with absolute and relative paths and stuff in your code things will become a mess sooner rather then later.
Personally I would go for Homestead, I use it all the time and it works great once you have it running.
Btw, the reason why localhost/quotes/public/index.php is working for you right now is because RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f tells Apache not to rewrite any requests to files that actually exist (otherwise you wouldn't be able to access static assets like your css).
The .htaccess file must be at the root of the application.
Add this in this file :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /public/([^\s?]*) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,NE,R=302]
RewriteRule ^((?!public/).*)$ public/$1 [L,NC]
Assuming you haven't touched the original architecture of Laravel, and that public data is still in the same place : the public/ folder
You can also follow this good tutorial
Let me give you an example of the way I have my routes setup.
In app\Http\routes.php, here are three sample routes that I have.
Route::get('/', function () {
$values = app('App\Http\Controllers\KeywordController')->index();
dd($values);
return view('welcome');
});
Route::get('googlefile', function () {
$output = app('App\Http\Controllers\KeywordController')->printToFileGoogle();
dd($output);
});
Route::get('bingfile', function () {
$output = app('App\Http\Controllers\KeywordController')->printToFileBing();
dd($output);
});
I have WAMP setup on my environment. I have made a controller at app\Http\Controllers\KeywordController.php. If my browser is set to localhost/googlefile, then it will goto the method printToFileGoogle() in KeywordController.php.
Please try something similar to this and tell me if you get an error and if you do what error you get.

Redirecting all requests to index.php with exceptions

I've searched everywhere trying to find a solution to something I thought was a particularly common problem, but I can't seem to find anything that works.
I'm using mod_rewrite to redirect all requests via my own CMS (index.php). Here's the htaccess code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
(The above mod_rewrite is exactly the same as the code found in a standard Wordpress installation which is why I'm perplexed as to how I cannot find a solution for the following problem)
I want to add some image processing to my video thumbnails. I have written a php script (video-image.php) that works great but I cannot seem to find a means to redirect the images urls whilst keeping the index.php redirect intact. The code I'm looking for does something like this:
RewriteRule ^images/video/(.*)/(.*).jpg /images/video/video-image.php?video_image_id=$2&video_image_width=$1 [NC]
But the above code seems to clash with the mod_rewrite that sends my requests to index.php. It seems I can either redirect the images to video-image.php or redirect my pages to index.php but there must be a way to do both?
I've always found mod_rewrite confusing so apologies if I'm not explaining myself clearly enough. All php scripts function perfectly well without the mod_rewrite so I'm certain it's not a php issue.
If anyone can shed any light on this problem or point me to an answer I'd really appreciate it!
The gist of your issue was the ordering of rewrite blocks. You usually put the more specific ones above the general rules. In your case:
# specific
RewriteRule ^images/video/(.*)/(.*).jpg /images/…
# generic
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
A better approach for Apache 2.4 and later is to use FallbackResource instead of the RewriteCond/Rule blob:
RewriteRule ^images/video/(.*)/(.*).jpg /image
FallbackResource index.php
Two more things:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
</IfModule>
Is something that you should not commonly use. Conditional directives make sense in Apaches core configuration. For .htaccess RewriteRule blocks it's less advisable. It's unlikely that mod_rewrite randomly disengages at runtime. And if ever, you'd rather want HTTP 500 errors in your log instead of users seeing 404 Not Found results.
Also RewriteBase can shorten some rules, or abstract their residence. But you also shouldn't use it habitually. Instead just prefix blog/ to your match rules, and assemble all rewrites in the DOCUMENT_ROOT/.htaccess (or better yet VirtualHost section for performance).

htaccess rewrite ".../pages/about.php" to ".../about"

I've searched and found a lot of questions on this site and elsewhere that are very similar, but I've tried implementing and modifying all the suggestions I've found and none of it works. I realize this is a very basic question an I am extremely frustrated because nothing I'm trying is working.
With that having been said... I am trying to organize my content pages within kurtiskronk.com/pages/... (e.g. kurtiskronk.com/pages/about.php)
What I want to do is make it so that I can simply link to kurtiskronk.com/about ... So how do I go about stripping "pages/" and ".php"? I don't have a ton of content pages, so it's not a big deal if I have to specify for each page, though something dynamic would be handy.
NOTES: I am using Rackspace Cloud hosting, and WordPress is installed in /blog. My phpinfo() can be seen at http://kurtiskronk.com/pages/phpinfo.php
This is my existing .htaccess file (in the root)
php_value register_globals "on"
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
#301 redirect to domain without 'www.'
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.kurtiskronk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://kurtiskronk.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/ blog/index.php [L]
# PHP - MAIL
php_value mail.force_extra_parameters -kurtis#kurtiskronk.com
I tested and the rewrite works with the line below (/about as URL brings up file /pages/about.php), but then the homepage gives a 500 Internal Server Error:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
So I'm still sort of in the same boat as before, and as a follow-up, possibly more difficult question, if you go to http://kurtiskronk.com/weddings I am using SlideShowPro (flash) w/ SSP Director (self-hosted) as the back-end for it. When it pulls up a new image, it adds the following after /weddings ... "#id=album-152&num=content-9698"
There are four sections of the portfolio
# Homepage (kurtiskronk.com) id=album-148 ($id is constant for this section)
# Weddings (/weddings) id=album-152 ($id is constant for this section)
# Portraits (/portraits) id=album-151 ($id is constant for this section)
# Commercial (/commercial) id=album-150 ($id is constant for this section)
Assuming we get kurtiskronk.com/weddings to rewrite successfully without breaking anything, how would we make the total URL something cleaner kurtiskronk.com/weddings/9698 since the $num is the only thing that will change within a given section?
Kurtis, thanks for the extra information. It's a lot easier to give a specific answer to this.
My first comment is that you need to separate out in your thinking URI space -- that is what URIs you want your users to type into their browser -- and filesystem space -- what physical files you want to map to. Some of your mappings are URI->URI and some are URI->FS
For example you want to issue a permanent redirect of www.kurtiskronk.com/* to kurtiskronk.com/*. Assuming that you only server the base and www subdomains from this tree, then this cond/rule pair should come first, so that you can assume that all other rules only refer to kurtiskronk.com.
Next, you need to review the RewiteBase documentation. .htaccess files are processed in what Apache calls a Per-Directory context and this directive tells the rewrite engine what to assume as the URI base which got to this directory and .htaccess file. From what I gather, your blog is installed in docroot/blog (in the filesystem, and that you want to get to directory by typing in http://kurtiskronk.com/blog/ but that this .htaccess file is for the root folder -- that is the base should be (this goes before the www mapping rule)
DirectorySlash On
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteBase /
#301 redirect to domain without 'www.'
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.kurtiskronk\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://kurtiskronk.com/$1 [R=301,NC]
You can add some field dumps look for REDIRECT_* in the Server or Environment table in the phpinfo O/P to see if these are sensible. For example:
RewriteWrite ^(.*)$ - \
[E=TESTDR:%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php,E=TESTPDR:%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php]
Your next rule is that if the file exists in the subdirectory pages then use it:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1 [NS,L]
[Note that some shared service sites don't set up DOCUMENT_ROOT properly for the rewrite engine so you may need to run a variableinfo script (<?php phpinfo(INFO_ENVIRONMENT | INFO_VARIABLES); to see if it sets up alternatives. On your site you have to use %{ENV:PHP_DOCUMENT_ROOT} instead.]
Your next rule is that if the file exists, but with the extension .php in the subdirectory pages then use it:
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/pages/$1.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ pages/$1.php [NS,L]
Now redirect any blog references to the blog subdirectory unless the URI maps to a real file (e.g. the blog stylesheets and your uploads.)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^blog/ blog/index.php [L]
A complication here is that WP may be using a poorly documented Apache feature call Path Info that is a script can act as a pseudo directory so http://kurtiskronk.com/blog/tag/downtown/ is redirected to docroot/blog/index.php/tag/downtown/ which is then executed by `docroot/blog/index.php using /tag/downtown/ as the PATH_INFO. But this is one for Wordpress experts to comment on. If this last rule doesn't work then try:
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*) blog/index.php/$1 [L]
PS. I like your site. I wish I was that young again :(
Postscript
When you say "it doesn't work", what doesn't with this .htaccess?
http://kurtiskronk.com/phpinfo,
http://kurtiskronk.com/phpinfo.php,
http://kurtiskronk.comblog/tag/downtown/
It's just that these rules work for these tests (with domain swapped) on mine. (One way is to move or copy the above variableinfo.php to the various subdirectories. If necessary temporarily rename the index.php to index.php.keep, say, and copy the variableinfo.php to the index.php file. You can now enter the various URI test patterns and see what is happening. Look for the REDIRECT_* fields in the phpinfo output, and the SCRIPT_NAME will tell you which is being executed. You can add more {E=...] flags to examine the various pattern results. (Remember that these only get assigned if the rule is a match.
Lastly note the changes above especially the additional NS flags. For some reason mod_rewrite was going directly into a subquery which was resulting in redirect: being dumped into the file pattern. I've had a look at the Apache code and this is a internal botch to flag that further redirection needs to take place (which then replaces this or backs out). However this open bug indicates that this backout can be missed in sub-queries and maybe that's what is happening here. Certainly adding the NS flas cured the problem on my test environment.
PS. Note the added explicit DirectoryIndex directive and also that whilst http://kurtiskronk.com will run the root index.php, the explicit /index.php version will run the one in pages, because that's what your rules say.
Here is a simple solution. You can use it apache conf file(s) or in .htaccess (easier to set up when you're trying).
mod_rewrite has to be enabled.
For example, use .htaccess in your DocumentRoot with:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
It will redirect /about to /pages/about.php, and any other page.
The "RewriteCond" part is to authorize access to an existing file (eg: if you had an "about" file at the root of your site, then it will be served, instead of redirecting to /pages/about.php).
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /([0-9]+)$ /pages/$1.php [L]
Put something like this in your .htaccess file. I guess that is what you want.
Juest a redirect from a simple url to a longer url.

mod_rewrite with Trailing Slash breaks CSS/IMG/SCRIPTS paths

I'm trying to make mod_rewrite the first sub-directory string from url in order to create similar functionality as 'jsfiddle.net saved url's within a class/db. The script works fine and does the rewrite.
e.g. of url
http://jsfiddle.net/RyEue/
This works fine (loads all css, scripts, etc.):
http://www.domain.com/787HHJ2
This is what I've used in the past which does the trick.
The problem Is when ending URL with last slash, script, css and others loose path.
http://www.domain.com/787HHJ2/
rewrite script:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On # Turn on the rewriting engine
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.
RewriteRule ^.+/?$ index.php [QSA,L]
Unsure if this has to do with Rewritebase, I've tried multiple ways.
PS. I've tried setting paths to absolute (e.g. src="/img/theimage.jpg") without luck.
1. Make sure you have css/images/js etc linked relative to root folder (with leading slash): /styles/main.css
2. Add one of these ruls before current one:
# do not touch files with .css/.js/.jpg etc extensions
RewriteRule \.(css|js|jpg|png|gif)$ - [L]
or
# do not touch any resources in images/css/js folders
RewriteRule ^(images|css|js)/ - [L]
3. Clear browser caches and restart (sometimes browser may display cached page/resource when rewrite rule was fixed which brings a lot of confusion).
Try escaping
RewriteRule ^.+\/?$ index.php [QSA,L]

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