Laravel 4 Routing 404 Not Found - php

Question

I have just played with Laravel some hours ago and seemed to hit a wall. I have seen similar questions here but they're about Apache
Route::get('/', function()
{
return 'hello world';
});
The routing above worked perfectly for localhost/helloworld/public/, however when I changed to this
Route::get('about', function()
{
return 'this is about';
});
and I used this url localhost/helloworld/public/about, it kept displaying 404 Not Found. Even when I tried localhost/helloworld/public/index.php/about, it still didn't work.
This is my nginx default.conf
And this is my .htaccess
I have heard about enabling mod_rewrite on nginx but have't got a clue how to do that.
Please help. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Refrence taken from here
This is an NGINX Configuration i've used with Laravel 4 and Laravel 4.1 that works.
server {
listen 80;
server_name sub.domain.com;
set $root_path '/var/www/html/application_name/public';
root $root_path;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ #rewrite;
location #rewrite {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?_url=/$1;
}
location ~ \.php {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index /index.php;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~* ^/(css|img|js|flv|swf|download)/(.+)$ {
root $root_path;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}