Routes not working without index.php - php

Question

Im using laravel 4.
I have a view nest.blade.php and the corresponding controller NestController.php:
Controller content:
class NestController extends BaseController {
public function showView()
{
return View::make('nest');
}
}
Route:
Route::get('/nest', 'NestController#showView');
When I go to url/nest it doesnt work.
When I go to url/index.php/nest it does work.
Obviously I just want it to be /nest without the index.php.
How can i resolve this?
My htaccess:
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>

Answer 1

Pretty URLs
The framework ships with a public/.htaccess file that is used to allow
URLs without index.php. If you use Apache to serve your Laravel
application, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module.
If the .htaccess file that ships with Laravel does not work with your
Apache installation, try this one:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
For more related help, check this answer.

Answer 2

I enabled the mod_rewrite module in the Apache HTTP server, restarted Apache service and tested again and it WORKED!!!
Below is the code i used to enable mode_rewrite;
1) Un-Hash this line in Apache/conf/httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
2) Create a new configuration for "sample-project" without modifying the default configuration in the httpd.conf file
Directory "C:/Apache24/htdocs/sample-project">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Directory>

Answer 3

Be Alert! If it is not working even after enabling rewrite module. You need to change the line "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride All" in httpd.conf.
As #The Alpha alerted, Laravel don't need to be configured for this purpose.

Answer 4

When you change the line AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in httpd.conf be sure that you do it inside <directory ...> that contains valid path.
Example
<Directory "/var/www/html"> #check path
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Answer 5

For some reasons the answers above are not working for me, so here is the only one that worked for me.
I am using ubuntu 18.04 amd64 as my development server environment.
So I modified apache.conf file located at/etc/apache2
From:
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted
To:
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Require all granted
And Also From:
<Directory /usr/share> AllowOverride None Require all granted
To
<Directory /usr/share> AllowOverride All Require all granted
After that, you need to restart apache using sudo service apapche2 restart command in the terminal
Now I can access the page without using index.php in the URL
Credit goes to: joshymatheww # Laracasts servers discussion channel on
Aug 5, 2017

Answer 6

Login to the terminal
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
After line
<Directory /var/www/>
.
.
.
</Directory>
and paste below code
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Now Ctrl+O and then Ctrl+M and then Ctrl+x
Now restart apache server
sudo service apache2 restart

Answer 7

First of All you need to set AllowOverride All in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. Find the following block:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
DirectoryIndex index.php
Require all granted
</Directory>
then you need to modify /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf and move index.php first :
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.cgi index.pl index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
AND DO NOT FORGET: Run a2enmode
sudo a2enmod rewrite
and then
sudo service apache2 restart
This way you apply it for all your laravel projects (inside /var/www/ folder).

Answer 8

set this in your .htaccess
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php(/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule .? - [L]
RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L]

Answer 9

Try the following .htaccess. I never had any trouble with that on a server or localhost environment.
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)/(.*)::\2$
RewriteRule ^(.*) - [E=BASE:%1]
RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php(/(.*)|$) %{ENV:BASE}/$2 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule .? - [L]
RewriteRule .? %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L]
</IfModule>