Routes not working on server using Laravel 5.2

Question

I'm deploying a webapp to a digitalOcean droplet and it displays the home route just fine. I have dependencies installed, Apache conf pointing to laravel's public folder, permissions given to www-data so Apache can use the folder but, when I try to access a link defined in the site, already defined in the routes file, for example /about I get a 404 error.
Why could this be?
The droplet's runs Ubuntu 16.04, I have Apache and php7.
I was reading this two posts: 1 and 2 but got no luck
My apache conf file is

<Directory /var/www/html/analizalabs/public>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

My sites-available file

 ServerAdmin tecnofunk@cryptolab.net
 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/analizalabs/public/
 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Part of my routes file

Route::get('/','PagesController@home');
Route::get('/about','PagesController@about');
Route::get('/contact','PagesController@contact');

My htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
    Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

Permissions like...

drwxrwxr-x   8 www-data dev   4096 Sep  9 21:58 public

where dev is the group I use to modify files with rw access in that directory.

Seems nothing is wrong with you, You sure about 404? maybe its not find controller or method. Double check PagesController namespace ( should be App\Http\Controllers ) — MoeinPorkamel, Sep 09 '16 at 22:03
sure about it, it works in my local dev. Just checked and controller's namespace just fine. `namespace App\Http\Controllers; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use App\Http\Requests; class PagesController extends Controller ` — Edgar Sampere, Sep 09 '16 at 22:05
Do you get an Apache 404 or Laravel 404? if its apache it sounds like rewrite isn't working — lagbox, Sep 09 '16 at 22:08
It seems apache rewrite module isnt enable, try to remove , and if you got error 500 you need to enable mod_rewrite — MoeinPorkamel, Sep 09 '16 at 22:09
@MoeinPorkamek well, that did the trick, so, rewrite module wasn't enabled by default,right? — Edgar Sampere, Sep 09 '16 at 22:13
Yes, you can check enabled modules in ubuntu with this command: apache2ctl -M and apachectl -M in mac ( or httpd -M in both ) — MoeinPorkamel, Sep 09 '16 at 22:16
I just move `root/public/.htaccess to root/.htaccess` and it works — Wasim A., Dec 22 '16 at 18:24

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '16 at 23:25

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It seems rewrite module isn't enabled, You have to enable it using:

a2enmod rewrite

Note1: rewrite module is not enabled by default in ubuntu

Note2: You can check enabled modules with apache2ctl -M and apachectl -M in mac ( or httpd -M in both )

answered Sep 09 '16 at 23:25

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