Laravel 4 Virtual Host and mod rewrite setup - php

Question

I've been trying for a few hours to install Laravel 4 and make the Virtual Hosts and Routing work but so far I've been unlucky. I'm mentioning that I'm doing this on a Windows 7 machine and WAMP.
I'll describe what I've already done:
I've enabled rewrite_module.
Updated httpd-vhosts.conf with the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.dev
ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
</VirtualHost>
Next, I've set up the etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
Also, the following lines are uncommented both in wamp/../conf/httpd.conf and in wamp/.../conf/original/httpd.conf:
LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
The content of my .htaccess is the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Yet, when I go to http://laravel.dev I get an Internal Server Error - The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request..
If i remove the .htaccess file from the public folder, then I'll see the Laravel "You have arrived" message. If then, i create a route like this (within the app\routes.php):
Route::get('/newroute', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
and then go to http://laravel.dev/newroute I'll end up with a 404 Not Found - The requested URL /newroute was not found on this server.
I am seriously confused and have no idea how I can get past this. I mention (although i think it's clear) that I ran a composer install after cloning the project template, installing the dependencies.

Answer 1

If the htaccess file that you posted was in your /public/ folder, then that's why you're getting a 500 internal server error. That htaccess file was made for the folder that the /public/ folder is in. But since your public folder is the document root, you don't need it.
The htaccess file in the /public/ folder should look like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
(for WAMP).

Answer 2

Try turning on AllowOverride All on the directory by changing your VirtualHost to:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.dev
ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 3

I have gone through the same issue and followed the all the treatments given above but virtual host can not be set.
When I inspected file http.conf then I found that inclusion of file httpd-vhosts.conf was commented as given below. Make sure to include httpd-vhosts.conf in httpd.conf.
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
I have removed the # comment. Restarted the wamp and it was working.
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf