Ubuntu 12.04 Apache2 Laravel Routes not Working

Question

I have seen other questions like this, but none of the answers have worked for me. I am new to laravel and I am trying to add a new route in app/routes.php. I have followed their example exactly and I am still having trouble. What I have tried:

• Enabling mod_rewrite with sudo a2enmod rewrite which did not give me any errors
• Editing my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default file
• Restarting apache multiple times with sudo service apache2 restart

• Adding this to the bottom of app/routes.php:

  Route::controller(Controller::detect());

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

The problem was that laravel wasn't completely installed. It kept failing because my php version was actually outdated. I needed to set it to a more recent php version and then try installing again. For some reason it didn't show any errors. The fix was to delete everything, update php, and start from the beginning.