XAMPP localhost returns object not found after installing Laravel

Question

After much faffing about I got laravel to work with XAMPP. However, I can't seem to access directories in the htdocs folder via localhost now. Attempt to access a file returns Object not found! along with The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

The changes I made to get laravel working seems like a blur now. The only thing I remember doing is editing the hosts file to enable the virtual host to work by adding 127.0.0.1 laravel.dev in the hosts file (using a mac btw). I also added a virtual host to the httpd-vhost.conf file.

I did undo the above changes but it didn't make a difference.

Any thoughts on whats gone wrong?

Thanks.

Dispelling Confusion Just thought I'd clarify what my experience is. Before installing laravel 4 I could access all my projects with localhost/someProjectName but now it fails.

I'm trying to identify what change caused this behaviour. Btw, I have no problems accessing my laravel project (my mapping allows me access to it via laravel.dev)

Answer 1

Look into your /etc/httpd.conf file and see if you have Virtual hosts activated.

If so, check your etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file. You might have set up a VirtualHost already.

EDIT: I have found that once you turn on Virtual Hosts, XAMPP needs a default VirtualHost for your basic htdocs files

Try adding a default VirtualHost (at the bottom of the file) like so:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs"
<Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes execCGI
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow From All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

It sounds to me like it is a problem with the way your directories are configured. Be sure to create a Virtual Host (if you're using Apache) that points to the public folder within your application directory.

For example, if your Laravel project is under /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/Laravel then set up a Virtual Host like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/Laravel/public

    # Other directives here
</VirtualHost>

Additionaly, if you're working with PHP >= 5.4, SSH into the application folder and run

./artisan serve

(Be sure that your PHP executable is in your PATH variable). Then go localhost:8000 and you should have your application running. Running this command runs the PHP built-in webserver and saves you the trouble of configuring virtual hosts.

Answer 3

In your Apache's http.conf, find the DocumentRoot line and add the subdirectory /public on the end.

Once that is done and you've restarted Apache, you'll be able to access everything which is contained within your htdocs/public folder (including subdirectories of that folder), along with any routes you've defined in Laravel.

Laravel is designed to be set up this way as to protect the code and files by not having them in the folder which is served out to the web.

Answer 4

I don't know if you're running L4 or L3. However, launch CLI and

$ cd ./path/to/project

Then for L4:

$ php artisan serve

For L3:

$ php -S localhost:8000 -t public

Now you can go to localhost:8000 and see your application.

Answer 5

You're having problem because the object really doesn't exist in your htdocs directory. You don't have to append xampp after localhost or 127.0.0.1 because xampp will treat it as an object or a folder under htdocs.

if you want to access your blog, make sure you have a blog folder under htdocs and put in your URL localhost/blog

Answer 6

I have same issue and found that there are miss configuration in vhost. So that's are correct configuration.

in etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs/laravel-master/public"
    ServerName laravel.local
    ErrorLog "logs/laravel-master-error.log"
     <Directory D:/xampp/htdocs/laravel-master/public>  
        AllowOverride All
        Order Allow,Deny
        Allow From All
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

In the hosts file

127.0.0.1 laravel.local