How to improve url in Laravel?

Question

I created my app on Homestead. Everything works fine there. But when I moved app to an external server I always have to include index.php after root path.

Example:

www.domain.com/index.php/contact

How to I get rid of index.php to make my URL prettier?

Application is located:

/var/www/

Public directory is renamed to html:

/var/www/html

PS. I'm using apache2.

geckob · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-25T12:32:15.967

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Assuming you already point your web server to public directory, your problem should be in your Apache conf.

Laravel comes out with .htaccess in public/.htaccess but you need to enable the mod rewrite in Apache for it to work

sudo a2enmod rewrite

For the .htaccess to work, you need to set the AllowOveride directive in Apache conf

<Directory "/var/www/public">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

edited May 25 '16 at 12:32

answered May 25 '16 at 11:29

geckob

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Should I delete everything what is in public/.htacces and put those 3 lines of your code or add it inside? – Bartosz May 25 '16 at 11:54
Nope. That is supposed to be put in main conf so that .htaccess can be used to override the main configuration for this specific library – geckob May 25 '16 at 11:56
@user4938195: Did you enabled rewrite like the first command? – geckob May 25 '16 at 11:56
Yes. And inside /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-deafult.conf i pointed at public directory. DocumentRoot /var/www/public – Bartosz May 25 '16 at 12:03
Can you include this directive in that file? AllowOverride All – geckob May 25 '16 at 12:05
And run sudo service apache2 restart – geckob May 25 '16 at 12:06
@user4938195 : Try to put AllowOverride All right after DocumentRoot – geckob May 25 '16 at 12:15
Job for apache2.service failed. See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. – Bartosz May 25 '16 at 12:17
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/112909/discussion-between-user4938195-and-geckob). – Bartosz May 25 '16 at 12:17
Location of apache conf in case anyone forgets: /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf – Bartosz May 26 '16 at 00:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 25 '16 at 11:21

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You should point Apache to a public directory which is inside Laravel directory. Restart Apache and you will be able to use normal URLs like www.domain.com/contact

You should use something like this when creating a virtual host:

DocumentRoot "/var/www/public"
<Directory "/var/www/public">

answered May 25 '16 at 11:21

Alexey Mezenin

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You renamed directory, but Laravel doesn't know about this. Try to configure Apache like I said, it's the right way to configure web server for Laravel project. – Alexey Mezenin May 25 '16 at 11:26

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