Laravel in subfolder on webhost

Question

I have a webapp written in Laravel that needs to run in a folder on a web host. The app will have to be accessible via hostname.com/webhit/ . This will point to the app's home page.

I only have one route:

Route::controller('/', 'HomeController');

HomeController's getIndex needs to serve the home page. This works.

However, as soon as I want to go to something like hostname.com/webhit/login , I get a 404 from Apache.

Obviously, .htaccess is not working properly. I need it to, essentially, turn URLs that look like hostname.com/webhit/login into hostname.com/webhit/index.php/login .

I have a .htaccess file in www/webhit (where index.php is located) that looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
            Options -MultiViews
        </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ webhit/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

I am not very familiar with .htaccess file syntax, but I believe it's doing something wrong.

Edit:

I did it. My .htaccess was wrong (it actually causes a redirect loop), but the issue was that it wasn't even being parsed by Apache (hence the 404 instead of a 500 due to >10 redirects in a request). I did the following steps in order to get everything to work:

1. Enable mod_rewrite and restart Apache (plenty of docs out there on how to do this)
2. But wait, there's more! By default, Apache on Ubuntu prevents URL rewrites. See this site . Most importantly, the following fragment from the URL above is very important: "By default , Ubuntu's Apache will ignore the directives in your .htaccess files." You will need to actually enable rewrites by editing \\etc\\apache2\\sites-available\\default and setting AllowOverride to all (see link above for more details).
3. Reload the configuration (or just restart apache).
4. Make sure you're using the correct .htaccess . My original version actually has a redirect loop in it. See the selected response for the correct version.

After this, I got it to work. I hope it helps future programmers having a similar issue!

Answer 1

Check default server requirements - laravel .htaccess file works for most situations. Try with this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I would suggest you to use resourceful controllers - mappings from your route to your controllers methods are much more clear, and you'll get full resource with one command (routes,models,views,controllers)