Laravel route directing to Home instead of throwing a NotFoundHttpException - php

Question

I'm experiencing some unexpected behaviour in my laravel (4.2) routes.
Let's say my server is available at https://example.com. If I enter https://example.com/whatever/index.php I would expect laravel to throw a NotFoundHttpException, because a route to "whatever" is not defined. Instead laravel shows me the start page, indicating that my "home" route was catched.
If I solely enter https://example.com/whatever everything is fine (i.e. I get the NotFoundHttpException as expected). I neither have the problem on my localhost. Here https://localhost/laravel/whatever/index.php throws the NotFoundHttpException as expected.
My routes.php file:
// Home
Route::get('/', array( 'as' => 'home', function() {
return View::make('home');
}));
Maybe someone can give me a hint where to start searching what's causing that behaviour: Apache config, PHP config, Laravel config?
Ammendment as answer to S. Safdar:
At first I thought of a .htaccess redirect issue, too. In laravel's public folder (the web servers root dir) lays a .htaccess as follows:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
As you can see, the redirect here is handled correctly. The requested "whatever/index.php" is no real file therefore it is redirected to be handled by laravels index.php. If I remove the Rewrite Conditions (plus Rule) I get a regular apache 404 error page. In my case that's of no help as I want laravel to correctly(!) handle all error pages. But for some reason laravels home route matches every url ending on /index.php.

Answer 1

It seems this issue is present with both nginx and apache servers. A few steps I took to mitigate the issue with apache:
Change the index.php filename:
public/index.php to public/start.php
Change .htaccess to read:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ start.php [L]
Change the reference to index.php in the server.php file to have:
require_once $paths['public'].'/start.php';

Answer 2

why not you your route use this like?
// Home
Route::get('/', function() {
return View::make('home');
}));
i think problem is coming from as that you used in your route array.