Laravel home page gives 404 but index.php works

Question

I'm creating a custom cms in a subfolder of my site. I installed a fresh copy of laravel at www.mysite.com/cms/ <-- application, bundles, public, etc are there.

I can not make a virtual host due to shared hosting but I managed to remove the need for the /public to be in the url by putting

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cms/public/.*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cms/public/$1 [L]

in the .htaccess file in my cms folder.

The thing is, clean urls works www.mysite.com/cms/public/ shows the Laravel starter page. But www.mysite.com/cms/ gives me a 404 not found error and www.mysite.com/cms/index.php shows the Laravel starter page.

I have set the url array element in application.php to

'url' => 'http://www.mysite.com/cms/',

and the index element to

'index' => '',

Has anyone come across this issue?

Answer 1

To use laravel on shared hosting, I would recommend to try this .

By the way, in your .htaccess, you are just redirecting to all non-exist request query to index.php in public directory. Because of the fact that, you should access with url.com/public.

Answer 2

Perhaps if you were to upload the contents of your public folder into /cms , and the other folders into /cms_system , you could change the paths.php file to reflect this?

So, you'd have this:

/cms
    (contents of the public folder, with .htaccess)
/cms_system
    /application
    /bundles
    /laravel
    /storage
    (etc)

Your paths would then look like this:

$paths['sys'] = 'system';
$paths['bundle'] = 'bundles';
$paths['app'] = 'application';
$paths['storage'] = 'storage';
$paths['public'] = '../cms';

I haven't tested this yet, but it should work. Please let me know if there are any problems with it, and will see what can be changed accordingly.