Laravel 8 - Detail url is not correctly mapped

Question

I am using laravel 8 and run it on a apache/ubuntu 20 server

My routes look like the following:

web.php

Route::get('/', 'IndexController@index');
Route::get('/company/{symbol}', 'CompanyController@index');

In my .env file the APP_URL looks like the following:

APP_URL=http://localhost/laravel_app/public

I can reach my base url / the following way:

http://localhost/laravel_app/public/

When I go from / to another detail url f.ex. /company/AAPL , I get:

Within my base ( / ) url's blade file index.blade.php file the code to click the link looks like the following:

@foreach ($company as $i)
    <tr>
        <th scope="row"><a href="/company/{{$i->symbol}}">{{$i->name}} ({{$i->symbol}})</a></th>
        <td>{{$i->date}}</td>
...
    </tr>
@endforeach

Why is the Route /company/{symbol} not mapped correctly?

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

I appreciate your replies!

Answer 1

use function url it will create valid url

url("/company/{{$i->symbol}}")

route function is very help full in url creation give route name

Route::get('/company/{symbol}', 'CompanyController@index')->name('company.page');

when ever url required to print

route('company.page', ['symbol' => $i->symbol]) 

it will return valid url

Answer 2

When you put / at the beginning of the path, it will go to root of yor project location | domain. You must set it like:

href="company/{{$i->symbol}}"

or with url helper

url('company' . $i->symbol)

But a better way would be naming the routes like:

// add name to your route
Route::get('/company/{symbol}', 'CompanyController@index')->name('company.index');

// call the route helper to return the url
route('company.index', ['symbol' => $i->symbol]);