Deploy Laravel project to production server

Dear laracast comunity

i am in the phase of deploying my laravel project on dedicated server with LAMP environment:- Linux (centOS)/ Apache/ MariaDB/ PHP

I was able to put the project in the document root of web server installed the composer and generated key for laravel project, and do migration i changed the .env file to the new environment

and now i am facing two problems:- 1- when i route to server ip address as: xxx.xx.xx.xx

i get apache page "Testing 123.." and i need to type xxx.xx.xx.xx/ public in order to go to index

2- when i type the URL xxx.xx.xx.xx/public i can view the welocme page of laravel put if i want to login i need to type the URL like: xxx.xx.xx.xx/public/index.php/login although i have followed the instruction in Laravel regarding pretty URLs: https://laravel.com/docs/master/installation

which first enabling mode_rewrite for apache and second replace the .htaccess with the recommended one and it wont fix the problem i was able to fix the problem by going to httpd.conf file in server and change every

AllowOverride none

AllowOverride All

this fixed some URLs not all of them so far i am able to access welcome, login, register, and forget password pages other pages i get the below error:-

Whoops, looks like something went wrong.

i also set up the home directory of Apache config to var/www/hml/public

any help will be valuable thanks in advance

manniL

8 years ago

Level 1

You definitely should set up the home directory of your Apache config to /path/to/your/laravel/project/public/. See this SO answer for more information and why it poses a security issue otherwise.

Example config (parts):

    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/path/to/your/laravel/project/public/

        <Directory /var/www/html/path/to/your/laravel/project/public/>
                Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride All
                Require all granted
        </Directory>

Wejdan

8 years ago

Level 1

@manniL i have done this but it did not fix the issue

Wejdan

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 1

i solved the issue by doing the following:-

1- set document root to my/project/path/public

2- change httpd.conf file by altering every: AllowOverride none to AllowOverride All

3- pages that wont need database worked fine but pages that need retrieving results from database wont show up so i migrated all my tables then run website and it worked fine

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