How to remove index.php from URL

Your app virtual host must have the public folder of your app as root directory.

@sada059 Did you bother to search the issue before posting? This has been asked literally dozens on times on this forum alone: https://laracasts.com/discuss?q=index.php

@pmall I dont have public folder anymore I have moved all the files to the project root directory var/www/public_html

@martinbean I have gone through most of the discussions but still cant get this workin. well this link https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/servers/urls-only-work-when-indexphp-is-used is very similar to the issue im facing the solution described was modifying my .htaccess file but still I get page not found error on URLs without index.php

sitename/ -- this works fine

sitename/index.php -- this also works fine

sitename/auth/login -- This causes a server 404

sitename/index.php/auth/login -- this works fine

daft questions;

You are using Apache?

Your .htaccess file is in the document root directory?

Create a file called test.php, containing "hello". visit sitename/test.php, what happens?

@Snapey Yes I am using Apache. The .htaccess file is in the document root directory var/www/public_html When I visit sitename/test.php I get the message "hello"

Some of my URLs were crawled by Google with "index.php". I used the code below to redirect "bad" URLs to correct once, without index.php.

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,NE,L]

Thanks Nruslan, It work for me.

You shouldn't have to fumble with the htaccess file it works as is.

You might need to add

RewriteBase /yoursite/

after RewriteEngine On

You need to set up folder structure correctly, which has been covered before.