404 error on /login

Do you still have the .htaccess in the /public dir? Is the DocumentRoot set to the /public dir?

Yes, and yes. I've found that I can put files and folders into /public and view them as if it was a static site.

.htaccess file in public looks like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Do you have mod_rewrite enabled in apache? Edit, is it also called "mod_rewrite.c" or is it "mod_rewrite.so"?

Hm. I thought I had. When I try to enable mod_rewrite based on the instructions for my server OS (Amazon Linux 2)

sudo a2enmod rewrite

I get the error "sudo: a2enmod: command not found"

With that not working, I'm not sure how to enable it or how to check if it's enabled.

try apachectl -t from the cli to see if there's a config issue.

CLI says "syntax OK" which I'm guessing is a yes?

That just tests the config to see if there are any problems. Now try apache2ctl -M to see the list of loaded modules

Hm. "-bash: apache2ctl: command not found"

oh, looks like for this version of linux the command is "httpd -M" and the result is

Loaded Modules:
 core_module (static)
 so_module (static)
 http_module (static)
 access_compat_module (shared)
 actions_module (shared)
 alias_module (shared)
 allowmethods_module (shared)
 auth_basic_module (shared)
 auth_digest_module (shared)
 authn_anon_module (shared)
 authn_core_module (shared)
 authn_dbd_module (shared)
 authn_dbm_module (shared)
 authn_file_module (shared)
 authn_socache_module (shared)
 authz_core_module (shared)
 authz_dbd_module (shared)
 authz_dbm_module (shared)
 authz_groupfile_module (shared)
 authz_host_module (shared)
 authz_owner_module (shared)
 authz_user_module (shared)
 autoindex_module (shared)
 cache_module (shared)
 cache_disk_module (shared)
 cache_socache_module (shared)
 data_module (shared)
 dbd_module (shared)
 deflate_module (shared)
 dir_module (shared)
 dumpio_module (shared)
 echo_module (shared)
 env_module (shared)
 expires_module (shared)
 ext_filter_module (shared)
 filter_module (shared)
 headers_module (shared)
 include_module (shared)
 info_module (shared)
 log_config_module (shared)
 logio_module (shared)
 macro_module (shared)
 mime_magic_module (shared)
 mime_module (shared)
 negotiation_module (shared)
 remoteip_module (shared)
 reqtimeout_module (shared)
 request_module (shared)
 rewrite_module (shared)
 setenvif_module (shared)
 slotmem_plain_module (shared)
 slotmem_shm_module (shared)
 socache_dbm_module (shared)
 socache_memcache_module (shared)
 socache_shmcb_module (shared)
 status_module (shared)
 substitute_module (shared)
 suexec_module (shared)
 unique_id_module (shared)
 unixd_module (shared)
 userdir_module (shared)
 version_module (shared)
 vhost_alias_module (shared)
 watchdog_module (shared)
 dav_module (shared)
 dav_fs_module (shared)
 dav_lock_module (shared)
 lua_module (shared)
 mpm_prefork_module (shared)
 proxy_module (shared)
 lbmethod_bybusyness_module (shared)
 lbmethod_byrequests_module (shared)
 lbmethod_bytraffic_module (shared)
 lbmethod_heartbeat_module (shared)
 proxy_ajp_module (shared)
 proxy_balancer_module (shared)
 proxy_connect_module (shared)
 proxy_express_module (shared)
 proxy_fcgi_module (shared)
 proxy_fdpass_module (shared)
 proxy_ftp_module (shared)
 proxy_http_module (shared)
 proxy_hcheck_module (shared)
 proxy_scgi_module (shared)
 proxy_uwsgi_module (shared)
 proxy_wstunnel_module (shared)
 systemd_module (shared)
 cgi_module (shared)
 http2_module (shared)
 proxy_http2_module (shared)

Ok, it's been years since I've used apache (I just use nginx now), but you probably need to set AllowOverride All in the main apache.conf file so that it will allow the directives set in your .htaccess to be used.

Have you set up a vhost for your site?

See if this helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18740419/how-to-set-allowoverride-all

Just followed those instructions and added this block to my httpd.conf file:

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

Restarted httpd and it's still giving a 404.

There's also this block in the .conf file which I left:

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

Do I need to remove that one?

Is /var/www where your project is located (or in that www dir)?

Yeah, it's within that www dir.

Try commenting out that 2nd block and restarting the server. Beyond that, I don't think I can help much more. I've forgotten most of my apache knowledge as I really haven't used it for many years now.

Also, if you have a small budget ($12-$19/mo to spare), personally I'd use a service like Laravel Forge, which can set up your AWS server with everything needed and is really simple to use. It has automatic deployments, free ssl certs, and a lot of other goodies to make this stuff simple. Laracasts just created a new video series to show it off. I'd watch it.

https://laracasts.com/series/learn-laravel-forge

https://forge.laravel.com/

can you show all the virtual host code , mask the ServerName

no no no, don't remove this

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

Aha! It WAS the AllowOverride! I had forgotten that I'd already put it in httpd.conf before, but I hadn't changed "none" to "all". So when I re-added it further up the document it was superceded by the incorrect instructions further down. Routes are serving correctly now :-)

Thanks for your help!

be careful, you are change the AllowOverride in virtual host , not in this

# don't touch this
<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

@dagfooyo If it's fixed and working now, please mark the thread as solved.

OK I feel like a complete newb now... how do I mark this thread as "solved?" I don't see an obvious button to do so.

@dagfooyo Next to each post, under the persons avatar, there are 2 icons. Thumbs up to "like" a post, and the checkbox to mark that post as the solution for the one that helped the most.