Deploy Laravel 5 Production on Windows 7

Hello,

WAMP on Windows works fine. What is the issue ?

1. I copy application folder and paste it on C:\wamp\www
2. Edit file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts to include

127.0.0.1       myapp.app

3. Uncomment in file C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\httpd.conf that says

# Virtual hosts
Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

4. Edit file C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf to include

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myapp/public"
    ServerName myapp.app
</VirtualHost>

5. Start WAMP all service
6. Go to myapp.app/login in the browser and it says

Not Found
The request URL /login was not found on this server.

I've tried fresh install of Laravel 5 and do the same steps above and it works fine! Any suggestion ? Thanks.

Have a look at your .htaccess.

@GonG : Check it out http://laragon.org/auto-create-virtual-hosts

Someone had trouble installing Laravel on Windows with Wamp like you: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/requests/trying-to-get-started-with-laravel/?page=2#reply-32885

i did install Bitnami https://bitnami.com/stack/wamp for my local test and it's work fine this stack support laravel 5 all you have to do is to set your conf and host file and voila

also

<VirtualHost 192.168.2.10:80>
    ServerAdmin mymail@localhost
    ServerName dev.laravel5
    DocumentRoot "C:/Bitnami/wampstack-5.4.36-0/frameworks/laravel/laravel5/public"
    <Directory "C:/Bitnami/wampstack-5.4.36-0/frameworks/laravel/laravel5/public/">
    Options +MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
        <IfVersion < 2.3 >
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </IfVersion>
        <IfVersion >= 2.3>
            Require all granted
        </IfVersion>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Be sure that you add : AllowOverride All for enable htaccess else it wont have effect

Seems .htaccess probably isn't being read to form the pretty urls. You can add AllowOverride All to your virtual host

Thanks guys. I didn't touch anything inside .htaccess file because I'm not familiar with it, sorry. Laravel is my first time on Backend world :) I tried add AllowOverride All like this:

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myapp/public"
    ServerName myapp.app
    AllowOverride All
</VirtualHost>

but WAMP cannot become green, it stays in orange state. I will try both Laragon and Bitnami.

Just curious, could it be that Windows treat dotFile differently or something like permission to look at .htaccess file ?

@GonG if WAMP stays orange it's a WAMP issue, not a Laravel one. Windows manages .htaccess without problem.

Hi, it's a little bit late but finally I got it worked using Laragon. Installed plus a few clicks and it just work!

Thanks you very much guys.

@GonG I tried Laragon on Windows 8 and it works fine but I didn't get virtual host to work automatically as they said. Did you get them ?

A last I keep WAMP because I better control the system.

@bestmomo Yeah, it works as they said, but mine was on Windows 7.