Laravel routes not working except for root - php

Question

I have been spending hours on this issue and hope to find my way out. I have set up laravel correctly, created a project myapp
My route.php file just contains
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
Route::get('/users', function()
{
return 'Users!';
});
When I run
http://localhost/myapp/public/
I get the laravel start page correctly
When I run
http://localhost/myapp/public/users
I get
The requested URL /myapp/index.php was not found on this server.
I don't know why its looking for index.php.
When I run
http://localhost/myapp/public/index.php/users
I get a page with text "Users". I should obtain this page when running
http://localhost/myapp/public/users
instead.
Below is my .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
Rewritebase /myapp/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Any ideas? Am running a Apache on Linux.

Answer 1

Your RewriteBase is set to /myapp/ but your index.php file is in /mayapp/public/ is it not?
As such, I think you'll find the RewriteBase needs to be /myapp/public/.

Answer 2

Make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on apache web server.
Make sure that your vhost config allows and parses htaccess files

Answer 3

Just do this and try to restart the apache.
sudo a2enmod rewrite
To restart apache: sudo services apache2 restart

Answer 4

I ran into same problem with production server, nothing seemed to work, no chmod/s no other solution but adding a simple line to .htaccess worked.
RewriteBase /
Thanks to the thread and user odaria

Answer 5

In your application/config/application.php file change:
'index' => 'index.php',
to:
'index' => '',
That should tell laravel not to use index.php and to rewrite correctly.
It works with standard .htaccess file which comes with laravel (haven't checked if you modified it)

Answer 6

Use this re-write rule:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my_app
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Also, in `application/config/app.php' change:
'index' => 'index.php'
to
'index' => ''

Answer 7

The quickest way is to add a symbolic link in command line:
ln -s your/acutal/path/myapp/public app-dev
Now browse http://localhost/app-dev should work fine as well as all the routes. You can change app-dev to whatever you want as the name.