404 Error when deploying laravel on AWS EC2

Question

I am trying to deploy Laravel on Amazon EC2 (Linux AMI) . I add .htaccess in the larval directory and laravel/public directory.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
WriteEngine On
RewriteBase /laravel/public/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

When I browser the http://www.mydomaine.com/laravel/public , the laravel first page works well, but when I browser into a sub page like http://www.mydomaine.com/laravel/public/login , a 404 Not Found error appears. How to solve this problem, thanks for your help !

Answer 1

You're doing it wrong. Do no make any changes in a .htaccess file inside a public directory and do not add .htaccess to a Laravel root directory.

You need to point Laravel to a public directory to make it work. For example, if you've installed Laravel in /path_to_laravel/public/ directory, you need to use these settings in your Apache config:

DocumentRoot "/path_to_laravel/public/"
<Directory "/path_to_laravel/public/">

After that restart Apache and your app should work as expected.

Use URLs, like http://www.mydomaine.com/login without 'laravel' and 'public'.

Answer 2

Doing as Alexey said should make it work. However, if you really want your application to be in this specific path ( /laravel/public/ ), you might add a new directive to your apache conf file.

Add a ServerName "localhost.app/my/path" and restart your Apache and it should work.