My Routes are Returning a 404, How can I Fix Them?

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JasonMortonNZ picture JasonMortonNZ · Aug 3, 2012 · Viewed 144.4k times · Source

I've just started learning the Laravel framework and I'm having an issue with routing.

The only route that's working is the default home route that's attached to Laravel out of the box.

I'm using WAMP on Windows and it uses PHP 5.4.3, and Apache 2.2.22, and I also have mod_rewrite enabled, and have removed the 'index.php' from the application.php config file to leave an empty string.

I've created a new controller called User:

class User_Controller extends Base_Controller {

    public $restful = true;

    public function get_index() 
    {
        return View::make('user.index');
    }
}

I've created a view file in application/views/user/ called index.php with some basic HTML code, and in routes.php I've added the following:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return View::make('home.index');
});

Route::get('user', function () {
    return View::make('user.index');
});

The first route works fine when visiting the root (http://localhost/mysite/public) in my web browser, but when I try to go to my second route with http://localhost/mysite/public/user I get a 404 Not Found error. Why would this be happening?

Answer

Andrew Vickers picture Andrew Vickers · Jan 19, 2015

On my Ubuntu LAMP installation, I solved this problem with the following 2 changes.

  1. Enable mod_rewrite on the apache server: sudo a2enmod rewrite.
  2. Edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, changing the "AllowOverride" directive for the /var/www directory (which is my main document root): AllowOverride All

Then restart the Apache server: service apache2 restart

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