Laravel 4 Routes with Apache

Question

I just started learning laravel 4 but I am having issues with the routes. When I go to my root url the routes seem to be working fine but when I try accessing my second route I get a 404 error and the server logs show a 'file not found' error.

I set AllowOverride ALL and changed the original .htaccess code to the one I posted below.

Note: example.com is working and it returns All cats as it supposed to.

This is the code:

Routes

Route::get('/', function(){
    return "All cats";
});

Route::get('cats/{id}',function($id){
    return "Cat #$id";
})->where('id','[0-9]+');

.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
     RewriteEngine on

     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin admin@example.com
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html/cats/public
        ServerName example.com
        ErrorLog logs/example.com-error_log
        CustomLog logs/example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

HTML error when trying to access example.com/cats/123

The requested URL /cats/123 was not found on this server.

Error log

 File does not exist: /var/www/html/cats/public/cats

Answer 1

The AllowOverride directive is per-directory, thus putting it randomly in Apache's configuration file won't work.

Create a new Directory block for the public directory in your Laravel installation, and put the AllowOverride All in there, like so :

<Directory "/path/to/your/laravel/public">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Also if you're only hosting a single Laravel installation there is no need to use a virtual host like you did, just change the existing DocumentRoot directive and Directory block to both point to your Laravel's public directory, and add the AllowOverride All in that directory block.