Laravel won't route except home directory

Question

I have a fresh install with almost no changes and it will not accept any new routes. I have tried multiple things with the virtual hosts file, mostly what I found on other sites but nothing has worked.

I am able to get the default, but no other routes.

So this works:

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

but this doesn't:

Route::get('test', function()
{
    return 'Hello;
});

Right now I have a conf file for apache that looks like:

<VirtualHost *:80>

#Host Name
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/our/public

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

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

</VirtualHost>

I have no problem accessing the site, it loads and I get the welcome page from laravel but I can't do any other routing or anything. Permissions are all okay and I can change this route to anything I want.

Look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26501188/why-apache-not-working/26501294#26501294 — Marcin Nabiałek, Oct 22 '14 at 17:45
@eignhpants Laravel's 404 page, or your web server's standard 404 page? — Alana Storm, Oct 22 '14 at 17:45
@MarcinNabiałek when I add that change the Apache servcer fails to restart. — eignhpants, Oct 22 '14 at 17:56
have you tried `index.php/test` to see if the issue is with mod rewrite? If this works then we know that the routing in Laravel works and it is something in apache. — dasper, Oct 22 '14 at 18:06
@dasper yes this worked. So yea, the problem must be apache. — eignhpants, Oct 22 '14 at 19:29
The problem was solved by running through a post I linked to below, thanks everyone. — eignhpants, Oct 22 '14 at 19:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 22 '17 at 16:08

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I was able to get it working by changing the AllowOverride on the rules for the /var/www in my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file.

Original:

<Directory /var/www/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride none
  Require all granted
</Directory>

New:

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

edited Mar 22 '17 at 16:08

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answered Mar 22 '17 at 15:39

Mahezer Carvalho

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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I was able to fix the error by following topics in the comments from my question.

Most expeccially this link on the ReWrite engine property in the .haccess file and this linke regarding changing the httpd.conf file (apache2.conf on my Apaache/Ubuntu system).

edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

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answered Oct 22 '14 at 19:52

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Laravel won't route except home directory

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