laravel the requested url was not found on this server

Question

I've an Ubuntu 14.04 kernel. I was installing my Laravel application in this server. After installing, I tried to set the root directory to public.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

I have only these options in the file

<VirtualHost *:80>
        # The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port t$
        # the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
        # redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
        # specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
        # match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
        # value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
        # However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
        #ServerName www.example.com

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public/

        # Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
        # error, crit, alert, emerg.
        # It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
        # modules, e.g.
        #LogLevel info ssl:warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

        # For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
        # enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
        # include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
        # following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
        # after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

I've changed the Document root to

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public/

Now when I tried to access my Laravel App, through 123.xxx.xxx.xxx/ it shows the home page and working well. It gets all the GET variable too. Eg: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx?type=wefwef

But when I go to other links such as 123.xxx.xxx.xxx/login it gives me an error

Not Found

The requested URL /login/ was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 104.236.234.85 Port 80

I have the routes.php working well on localhost. But not on this server. Please help me.

Answer 1

This looks like you have to enable .htaccess by adding this to your vhost:

<Directory /var/www/html/public/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

If that doesn't work, make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled.

Don't forget to restart apache after making the changes! (service apache2 restart)