Laravel 4 All Routes Except Home Result in 404 Error

I installed Laravel 4 using Composer and also set up a virtual host. Currently, only the root route is working:

<?php

Route::get('/', function()
{
	return View::make('hello');
});

This is not:

Route::get('/hello', function()
{
	return View::make('hello');
});

What I'm trying to hit is TasksController at /tasks:

Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController');

This is giving me 404 error as well. What could I be doing wrong? I have a default .htaccess file at the root of my project:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I am using localhost on a Mac.

Just for a laugh, see if /index.php/hello works.

If so, then most likely it's a .htaccess problem.

Had the same problem running Laravel 4 on WAMP (Windows 8).
The solution that worked for me was:

1. Open apache httpd.conf and find this line :

   #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
   

2. Uncomment this line (remove the #)

3. Save httpd.conf

4. Restart WAMP

It should be working!

I had the same problem and the solution was enable the rewrite mod on Apache2

In a terminal use the following commands:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo service apache2 restart

And magic!

Had exactly the same problem.

Two things I needed to do to fix this:

1. enable rewrite_module in Apache

2. Change the AllowOverride from None to All, example (Apache 2.4.9):

   <Directory "c:/www">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
   

FYI:
use Laravel Homestead together with VirtualBox and Vagrant instead of WAMP. It contains Nginx instead of Apache but everything works by default as it is configured for Laravel explicitly.

FOR UBUNTU USERS - tested for Ubuntu 18.04

1- Enable mod rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

2- Change AllowOverride in apache conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change the AllowOverride from None to All in this block

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

3- Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart

Even after enabling mod_rewrite, you may face this problem if you are aliasing your laravel/public folder.

Adding

RewriteBase /your_apache_alias

to .htaccess does the trick.

I tried all these with no success then i found another post and changed my .htaccess to this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On

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

You don't need a / when defining anything other than home:

Route::get('hello', function()
{
    return View::make('hello');
});

Should work.

It's like @GaryJ & @MartinGomez said. This is the content of the .htaccess that should be set on the public folder for all your laravel 4 projects running on Apache server:

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

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

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

Since Laravel 4 is autoloading files from a map in a static file, you need to update that file when you add a new controller. Run this command to rebuild the static file:

php composer.phar dump-autoload

There was a little flaw in a previous answer. This might help out.

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo service apache2 restart

Hope it does.

I had this problem (on Windows with manually installed Apache 2.2), and the cause was a missing AllowOverride in my VirtualHost as the root directory in httpd.conf was defaulted to None.

FileInfo Options=MultiViews is the minimal set you need for Laravel's .htaccess

e.g.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/htdocs/domain.com/laravel/public"
    ServerName foo.domain.com

	<Directory "C:/htdocs/domain.com/laravel/public">
		AllowOverride FileInfo Options=MultiViews
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Or use AllowOverride All if this doesn't work and you don't care for security.

It's pretty clear that the problem appears because of the "mod_rewrite", in some cases just enabling this module in Apache is enough to get it fixed.

However, in my case, I had to extend the configuration for the VirtualHost in the following way:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName adplus.local

    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /var/www/adplus.local/project/public

    **<Directory "/var/www/adplus.local/project/public">
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>**

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

For Nginx users, you probably copied the the default virtualhost - but Laravel requires some customization on the location directive to allow the Laravel application to do the routing and not Nginx.

In your /etc/nginx/sites-available/your-site-name replace the location directive with this:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

Then run sudo service nginx reload to make the changes come into effect.

Go to

> nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/yoursite

find try_file and replace as below:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

I had a similar problem on Ubuntu 14.04 with Lumen 5.4.

The solution was two parts for me. First in my vhost file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/my_vhost.conf, I had to add the following <Directory> entry to allow overrides, after declaring my DocumentRoot:

    DocumentRoot /var/www/path/to/my/app/public

    <Directory "/var/www/path/to/my/app/public">
            Options FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All

            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

Next, I had to enable rewrites with:

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart

This update worked for me. In the .htaccess file simply add the following after the Rewriterules are turned on.

Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

Worked like charm

If using IIS as web server, create a file with this name web.config on public folder or where index.php is with this configuration :

<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

If you using apache edit .htaccess file and add this part

<Directory />
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

In linux and nginx there isn't this problem

This comment may be a little late but it may help. I had the same problem when routing to another view like this:

Route::get('index', function () {
return view('index');
});

Route::get('login', function () {
return view('login');
});

But didn't work so I tried everything i found in all the related posts but wasn't enough to solve my problem so i found this lines on the httpd.conf:

<Files ".ht*">
Require all denied
</Files>

So i changed "denied" to "granted" and also commented this line on my .htaccess:

#RewriteBase /

And worked!! I think this lines make Apache not consider the .htaccess file of your project so turning it to granted made the difference. Hope this can help someone with the same problem.

Working on Apache Server 2 @ Manjaro Linux (based on Archlinux)