Laravel 4 hosting on an online shared server

Question

I have developed a website on l4 now I am trying to upload it on a shared server online. The app is accessible from a subdomain http://bookcheetah.thedevs.org or http://thedevs.org/bookcheetah but the only problem is that whenever you try to click around or search you are always getting 404 errors. I tried different ways like this one and this one but still I get 404 errors when I click around. Could it be the subdomain? Please help me resolve this error.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '13 at 12:53

I created a .htaccess file in my document root with the following code:

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            Options -MultiViews
            RewriteEngine On

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

That solved the problem!

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '13 at 01:11

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Looks like a issue with mod_rewrite. If you access your routes via index.php ie http://bookcheetah.thedevs.org/index.php/howitworks they appear to be working fine.

Check to see if mod_rewrite is enabled on the server and that your .htaccess file has the correct rules.

answered Jul 19 '13 at 01:11

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Thank you so much! atleast i can see my app work. I dont see any .htaccess file on the directory or even on the public_html directory. How do I check id mod_rewrite is enabled on a normal cpanel account? – Timothy Jul 19 '13 at 07:24
Thanks, i created a .htaccess file in my document root with the mod_rewrite – Timothy Jul 19 '13 at 12:51

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 12:01

Just to get all answers in one place.

If you can access your pages in the manner dragoon mentioned (e.i. http://yourdomain.com/yoursubfolder/index.php/yourpage ) but when you try to access the same page without "/index.php" part you see "not found error" you might try to add in your .htaccess (in "/public" folder) file following line:

just after:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        Options -MultiViews
        RewriteEngine On

add the following line (the trailing slash is important if you use stock .htaccess from Laravel) :

RewriteBase /yoursubfolder/

That should tell your web server to serve files from "yoursubfolder" as if they where in "/" base folder.

Hope that helps someone.

@TechyTimo Say you have a domain http://iamdomain.com/ and you want to serve your Laravel app from a subfolder /iamsubfolder so the full path is http://iamdomain.com/iamsubfolder then RewriteBase directive will be: `RewriteBase /iamsubfolder/` — Jakub Gadkowski, Oct 08 '13 at 20:56

Laravel 4 hosting on an online shared server

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