Apache Mod Rewrite For Laravel - php

Question

I have an installation of Laravel on Wampserver. The directory is as follows:
C:\wamp\www\laravel
Now URLs are like this:
http://localhost/laravel/public/index.php/home/index
So I used the following htaccess code
Options +FollowSymLinks
Options -indexes
DirectoryIndex index.PHP
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.PHP|images|robots.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_ FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_ FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L, QSA]
To reduce the URL to
http://localhost/laravel/public/home/index
But the laravel framework insists that all application files reside in the public folder.
So I would like to know what I need to add to (or subtract from) the htaccess file so that the URL can look like
http://localhost/laravel/home/index
Thanks

Answer 1

When testing locally I do one of two things.
Create a new .htaccess below the public directory with the following.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Create a new virtual host. With WAMP you can navigate to C:\wamp\bin\apache\YOUR APACHE VERSION\conf\extra and find your httpd-vhosts.conf file, in there you can see example virtual hosts. Here's one of mine:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.dev
ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
</VirtualHost>
Make sure that your vhosts configuration file is being included. Open up your httpd.conf file and search for the vhosts file, uncomment the include line if it's commented out. Then I open the CLI and enter notepad "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" which opens up your hosts file. Underneath the item that mentions localhost place your new host. Here's an example.
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
Make sure you restart Apache and bingo, you should be able to navigate to http://laravel.dev and you won't have any annoying public directory. This is how I achieve it, as I prefer the nicer looking virtual host rather then a long winded localhost URL.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I finally figured a way out. First of all, I had to open and edit my Apache httpd.conf by selecting it from the Wamp Aestran tray menu. The I had to uncomment the line
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
After that, I opened the file which is located at the
<wampdirectory>/bin/apache/apache.x.y.z/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
then I added the following lines.
#
# Use name-based virtual hosting.
#
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
ServerName localhost
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#If you want to allow access from your internal network
# For specific ip addresses add one line per ip address
#Allow from 192.168.0.100
# For every ip in the subnet, just use the first 3 numbers of the subnet
#Allow from 192.168.0
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
## must be first so the the wamp menu page loads when you use just localhost as the domain name
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/sites/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.dev
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
<Directory "C:/wamp/sites/laravel/public">
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
#If you want to allow access from your internal network
# For specific ip addresses add one line per ip address
#Allow from 192.168.0.100
# For every ip in the subnet, just use the first 3 numbers of the subnet
#Allow from 192.168.0
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The next step was to edit my hosts file at C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
and added
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
Then restarted Wamp and it worked. Thanks to you guys for pointing me in the right direction. Really Appreciate it

Answer 3

The easiest way I got this working on my local dev environment was to do the following:
(Assuming you have WAMP installed in C:\WAMP)
Create the following folder:
c:\wamp\www\laravel
Download laravel and put the contents in the above directory. You will know you have done it right if you can browse to hxxp://localhost/laravel/public and get the opening screen. However, this isn't good enough. We want to get that screen by going to http://localhost/laravel
So then we do the following:
Create a textfile containing the following:
Alias /laravel "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Allow from all
</Directory>
Save this file as laravel.conf in the c:\wamp\alias directory.
Finally, restart your wampserver.
You should now be able to surf to http://localhost/laravel
Note that the above is strictly for a local development environment.

Answer 4

You're gonna end up with your code and your public folder residing in the same place, which most people do not recommend. I'd suggest you take advantage of using a local web server.
Why not make mysite.dev point to laravel/public directory so you could just use http://mysite.dev everytime, you have cleaner and shorter URL's too?

Answer 5

As a newb to WAMP and Laravel, I struggled at bit but did get the virtualhost thing to work on my WIN7PRO 64-bit box. In WAMPSERVER/Apache/hppd.conf at the end of the file, I added:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot C:/webapp/public
ServerName webapp
<Directory C:/webapp/public >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot C:/wamp/www
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
and I added:
127.0.0.1 webapp
to the hosts file. (I was never successful editing the vhosts files, as many posts on the web suggested.)
These changes allow me to get to my Laravel test app in my browser via
http://webapp
(and also, via just http://127.0.0.1)
and, to get to all my other sites, via:
http://localhost/devsite/whatever..