laravel publish site issue - php

Question

I need to publish my web app written in laravel 4,
i've followed many tutorial in internet but i'm not able to make it works correctly.
i'm on a dedicate server with centos 6.6 where resides another website so the laravel app should be placed in a sub folder named vols
this is the current folder structure:
/
var/
www/
laravel/
app/
bootstrap/
vendor/
...
html/
vols/
other files of my website
i've changed the paths inside bootstrap/paths.php to
'app' => __DIR__.'/../../laravel/app'
'public' => __DIR__.'/../../html/vols'
'base' => __DIR__.'/../../laravel'
'storage' => __DIR__.'/../../laravel/app/storage'
and the paths inside vols/index.php to
require __DIR__.'/../../laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../../laravel/bootstrap/start.php';
my first controller is named volunteers, so if visit http://mydomain/vols i should be redirected to http://mydomain/vols/volunteers
instead i see this error message: The requested URL /vols/volunteers was not found on this server.
if i try to connect to http://mydomain/vols/index.php/volunteers everything works correctly but i don't want index.php in my route.
i think i should work on .htaccess inside vols folder, but i've never studied how it really works, so i'm just copying some random snippets from internet substituting public with vols.
currently it look like this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^vols
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ vols/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Some solutions suggests to create vhost, technically i can do that, but i don't know how.
Could you please help me?

Answer 1

You should place the following .htaccess in your vols folder -
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /vols/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>