Laravel Localhost or pretty url not working

Question

I have installed composer on windows 8 and i am using the webserver xampp,

I did the comand composer global require

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

I even configure env path for composer like this

set PATH=%PATH%;%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

Then created the project like this

Laravel new myproject

I check the file .htaccess in my public folder of my laravel project,

<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]

I have checked the module activation for url rewriting in apache httpd.conf

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

then i test it and i typed many urls and it gives a page not found ERROR !

Here are the url tested:

• localhost/laravel/
• localhost/laravel/public
• localhost/laravel/myproject/
• localhost/laravel/myproject/public

Did i miss something, i am quite surprised to fix things for hours to use a popular framework like laravel.

Answer 1

From the comment of my question we conclude that laravel has a bug with xampp and the bug was reported 3 days ago on the official bug tracking forum from laravel

• Please check this link: http://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/8129

Also we have found that my folder structure is too long and it could generate conflict within the configuration of xampp, the advice was to use a virtual host solution, the one advised by laravel is Homestead, so let's try with homestead !

• http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead

Good luck to everyone who need to fix their xampp server to work with laravel maybe try to use another webserver instead.