Configure Laravel routing on a WAMP Server

Question

I'm learning Laravel framework, but I have a weird problem in the routing. For example when I access localhost/iMall it will only show list of files and folders, i should explicitly access localhost/iMall/public and when I access localhost/public/index.php it will got to localhost/index.php showing the index page of WAMP server. And adding any routes is not working for example: in app/http/routes.php i wrote this:

<?php
Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::get('hi', function () {
    return view('Hi'); // Hi.blade.php
});

But this is not working, the mod_rewrite is enabled and AllowOverride is set to all. I'm using WAMP 3.0.4 Any help?

Answer 1

In laravel 5.4 you should put your route in /routes/web.php and not /app/http/routes.php

You should als change you Virtual Host configuration on your WAMP Server.

Laravel expects that your Document Root is /public so if you enter localhost is should point to /path/to/laravel_project/public

Now the default in WAMP is that he shows you the WAMP index.php.

Now what you can do it to add a new domain in you hosts file.
C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts and add the flowing line at the end:
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev

Now in you have to add a new Virtual Host on your WAMP Server :

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName laravel.dev
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp64/www/laravel_project/public"

    <Directory "C:/wamp64/www/laravel_project/public/">
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        Require all granted
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

and restart you WAMP Server

Now if you enter laravel.dev it should show you the / route of your Laravel Project.