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

The easiest way I got this working on my local dev environment was to do the following:

(Assuming you have WAMP installed in C:\WAMP)

Create the following folder:

c:\wamp\www\laravel

Download laravel and put the contents in the above directory. You will know you have done it right if you can browse to hxxp://localhost/laravel/public and get the opening screen. However, this isn't good enough. We want to get that screen by going to http://localhost/laravel

So then we do the following:

Create a textfile containing the following:

Alias /laravel "c:/wamp/www/laravel/public" 


    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Allow from all

Save this file as laravel.conf in the c:\wamp\alias directory.

Finally, restart your wampserver.

You should now be able to surf to http://localhost/laravel

Note that the above is strictly for a local development environment.