Laravel 5 - only home page route working on live server

Make sure that caps and small letters all correct I ran into this on a Windows test development all did work but linux is very case sensitive.

I am using windows 8.1, its working fine.

and I have hosted my project on a cPanel sort of hosting. but its not working there, whereas all is working fine on my local machine with XAMPP.

same happened to me. I reinstalled all my php5 modules including mcrypt (which phpmyadmin warned me about) and it somehow fixed my problem.

@csuarez can you please explain your answer, actually I dont know how to do it. installing php5 modules including mcrypt?

one more thing i noticed. if I go to www.example.com/test is does not work BUT if i go to www.example.com/index.php/test , now it WORKS. So, now I tell you the directory sturcture: I have :

myWebsiteFolder/laravel/public_html so, I have all the laravel files to "laravel" folder and the "public" contents to "public_html" folder. my .htaccess file also lives in the "public_html" folder. do I need to fix my .htaccess file, if yes, how?

do you understand what is happening, I have been searching for my answer for last two days but failed.

Check your htaccess file.

here is my .htaccess file. what changes should be made here?

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

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
    

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

Here's mine and works:

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /laravel51/public/
   # change above to your site i.e.,  RewriteBase /whatever/public/

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

At least it's worth a try. Also make sure folder structures match on local and production servers.

Great !

Thanks a lot @jlrdw

Hi guys, I need some help, I'm uploading a project in Laravel 5 to a server. The main porblem is I just uploaded the project as localhost in public_html of my server, and I can access to my home page with www.domain.xxx/public, and I can't go any further, what should I change to just access to my home page using just the domain url?

Thanks in advance!

@alrocha Please create your own thread ;) Not much users will look at this thread since it's already marked as solved!

@saj

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt

then list the files in this directory: /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d

ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   32 Jun 17 00:56 05-opcache.ini -> ../../mods-available/opcache.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   28 Jun 17 00:56 10-pdo.ini -> ../../mods-available/pdo.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   29 Jun 18 21:58 20-apcu.ini -> ../../mods-available/apcu.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   27 Jun 17 01:02 20-gd.ini -> ../../mods-available/gd.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   29 Jun 17 00:56 20-json.ini -> ../../mods-available/json.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 Jun 23 03:13 20-mcrypt.ini -> ../../mods-available/mcrypt.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   31 Jun 17 00:56 20-mysqli.ini -> ../../mods-available/mysqli.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   30 Jun 17 00:56 20-mysql.ini -> ../../mods-available/mysql.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   34 Jun 17 00:56 20-pdo_mysql.ini -> ../../mods-available/pdo_mysql.ini
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   33 Jun 17 00:56 20-readline.ini -> ../../mods-available/readline.ini

This is what mine look like.

@saj also forgot to mention - put php in your path

sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc
//add this line
export PATH=/usr/lib/php5/:$PATH
//or wherever php5 is installed

for live server www.mywebsite.com instead of mywebsite.com/public you don't need anymore to write public and also on to your links and script put public/ sample: public/assets/site/css/lightbox.min.css instead of: assets/site/css/lightbox.min.css

If the answer here doesn't works for some people. This is the one works for me

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/why-do-my-laravel-routes-not-work

Hi Guys,

You just need to enable rewrite mode:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

Hi guys, if the accepted answer doesn't work for you, all you have to do is change the path from your public folder to "/" in .htaccess: it should look like this "RewriteBase /" source : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16885467/laravel-sends-the-server-on-10-redirects

I had a similar problem on my LAMP set-up. I fixed it by enabling rewrite functionality of apache. The details resolution is present (scroll to the bottom of the page) here if someone needs help on it

http://ankgne.com/post/setting-up-digital-ocean-for-laravel-application

i have the same problem. Where this file is created??? on laravel51 folder or in the public folder?

Ok after hours working on this I found that for me the issue was that I needed to add to apache2.conf file in /etc/apache2 :

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

Otherwise .htaccess will be ignored (without AllowOverride All). After this modification, I could use the default .htaccess without any other issues, no need to edit anything.

Also, on 000-default.conf in etc/apache2/sites-enabled :

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