Apache Mod Rewrite For Laravel

Question

I have an installation of Laravel on Wampserver. The directory is as follows:

C:\\wamp\\www\\laravel

Now URLs are like this:

http://localhost/

Answer 1

When testing locally I do one of two things.

1. Create a new .htaccess below the public directory with the following.

   
       RewriteEngine on
   
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
   
   

2. Create a new virtual host. With WAMP you can navigate to C:\wamp\bin\apache\YOUR APACHE VERSION\conf\extra and find your httpd-vhosts.conf file, in there you can see example virtual hosts. Here's one of mine:

   
       DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public"
       ServerName laravel.dev
       ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
   
   

   Make sure that your vhosts configuration file is being included. Open up your httpd.conf file and search for the vhosts file, uncomment the include line if it's commented out. Then I open the CLI and enter notepad "C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" which opens up your hosts file. Underneath the item that mentions localhost place your new host. Here's an example.

   127.0.0.1  laravel.dev
   

   Make sure you restart Apache and bingo, you should be able to navigate to http://laravel.dev and you won't have any annoying public directory. This is how I achieve it, as I prefer the nicer looking virtual host rather then a long winded localhost URL.

Hope this helps.