routes not directing in laravel application - php

Question

I am surprised this is not working but maybe I am missing something...I am trying to access from the main page (index.php) either the login page or the signup page. I created both routes to be handled. When I click on the link, it goes to another page such as /website/login and shows not found. Here is the routes.php code:
Route::get('/', 'MainController#index');
Route::get('login', array('as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'MembersController#loadLoginView'));
Route::get('signup', array('as' => 'signup', 'uses' => 'MembersController#loadRegisterView'));
MembersController code:
<?php
class MembersController extends BaseController {
public function loadRegisterView()
{
return View::make('members.register');
}
public function loadLoginView()
{
return View::make('members.login');
}
}
and inside views I have a folder called members and inside it I got login.blade.php and register.blade.php.
Thanks for the help in advance

Answer 1

To remove the index.php you could use the .htaccess provided on the Laravel website:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Be sure you're running on an Apache server with Mod_rewrite active. I'm not expert on other servers, so I can't suggest you alternative. On Laravel's website there's this snippet for Nginx:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
Have no idea on IIS server, though.
Otherwise, you'll need to keep the 'index.php' in the url, like http://www.example.com/index.php/login