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Hello Genius,
Please help me to resolve this . I hosted Laravel application on production environment. Now i got following issue .
Not Working
http://boobamba.com/samadhi/stts/public/login
Working fine
http://boobamba.com/samadhi/stts/public/index.php/login
htaccess file
<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]
# Send Requests To Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
How are your folders setup, is main laravel out of webroot or under webroot? Are you having to point doc root to public?
public shouldn't be in url.
See these two links:
http://novate.co.uk/deploy-laravel-5-on-shared-hosting-from-heart-internet/
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/next-issue-fonts-and-images-arent-visible
Or if you have to place all under public_html let me know. I don't know how your host works.
Here is my folder structure.
/var/www/html/samadhi/lms
samadhi sub domain folder
lms contains the laravel application
@jlrdw , this is VPS server not shared one.
Here is my URL Structure
www.boobamba.com/samadhi/lms
www.boobamba.com/manchi/lms
www.boobamba.com/oxford/lms
lms is laravel web folder . samadhi , machin,oxfords are company names.
Did you configure vhost ?
@putheakhem , No , please help me to build it . my server is centos7
do you experience with vhost before?
if it's not, please follow this instruction https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-7. Please let me know if you cannot do it.
See my updated reply above, have you modified anything in public?
No I didn't modify anything. @jlrdw
You can try the following, leave laravel's original htaccess alone however.
Add another .htaccess with only this to base root like lms
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/
RewriteRule ^ server.php
That will serve public, and in public you should have this .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /yoursite/ I only add this line try /lms/
# 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]
# Send Requests To Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/ [L]
</IfModule>
I like adding the RewriteBase /yoursite/ so I don't need all the extra slashes in routing and redirecting.
Of course yoursite gets changed to actual url root of site.
@jlrdw , I moved all public folder data to root ones
http://boobamba.com/samadhi/lms/login is not working
http://boobamba.com/samadhi/lms/index.php/login is working
Please note : boobamba.com is sample name :)
Now i need to remove index.php from this url. Thanks for your help.But Both ones are failed
...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /lms/
...
...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /samadhi/lms/
...
If main laravel is not out of the webroot, you should leave public alone and use as designed, otherwise you have an insecure set up.
I would suggest setting up a temp app, and experiment around with what works and what doesn't work for you.
Right now at the end of your url if you type .env does it show your private environment file? It shouldn't if set up correctly.
@jlrdw , you are right. i can see ".env" file information. (www.boobamba.com/samadhi/lms/.env) Okay i will setup laravel app as it is . my question , how could i remove "index.php" file from this url . it doesn't work :(
Please note : mod_rewrite module also enabled in my centos7 server
@jlrdw , Now i created this URL Structure. Also i kept public folder as it is . however i can see .env file
through this link
www.boobamba.com/samadhi/.env
Here is my project url
http://boombamba.com/samadhi/
Here is my UPDATED project folder structure. https://snipboard.io/hTxaiA.jpg
how could i remove "index.php"
By using the second .htaccess I showed.
It correctly points to public as webroot, there in public is index.php and Laravel's .htaccess which do their thing.
Just how many levels deep is public?
You need to tell index.php where to find main laravel via adjusting:
/../../../../../../ // however many you need.
Like
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php'; default
If setup correct, you do not have to adjust index.php at all.
@jlrdw - Just how many levels deep is public?
01
do i need to apply this for other places
<?php
use Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Check If Application Is Under Maintenance
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| If the application is maintenance / demo mode via the "down" command we
| will require this file so that any prerendered template can be shown
| instead of starting the framework, which could cause an exception.
|
*/
if (file_exists(__DIR__.'/../storage/framework/maintenance.php')) {
require __DIR__.'/../storage/framework/maintenance.php';
}
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| this application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so we don't need to manually load our classes.
|
*/
require '/var/www/html/samadhi/vendor/autoload.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request using
| the application's HTTP kernel. Then, we will send the response back
| to this client's browser, allowing them to enjoy our application.
|
*/
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
$kernel = $app->make(Kernel::class);
$response = tap($kernel->handle(
$request = Request::capture()
))->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);
Above just examples, stick with the default levels.
@jlrdw Highly appreciate your effort at this moment.
I forgot to tell some thing . I m using Centos 7 production server. So @putheakhem , highlighted the vhost scenario. so i setup vhost and configuer it with my domain.
Solution Setup vhost in VPS server
Documentation https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-centos-7/
After that everything has been resolved.
Now i can access without index.php URL
Thanks again for your time and effort. !!
@jlrdw , I want to protect this file. because everyone knows my credentials :(
The only correct way to do this is to serve the public folder as the document root
Anything else is a hack
100% Agree with you @snapey . I saw so many articles guide to change server.php name into index.php , bla bla...that is damn wrong thing.
It is customized. I wouldn't suggest doing that. Please follow the best practice in laravel framework. Then you don't get stressed.
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