laravel the requested url was not found on this server

Question

I\'ve an Ubuntu 14.04 kernel. I was installing my Laravel application in this server. After installing, I tried to set the root directory to public.

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Answer 1

For Ubunutu 18.04 inside a vagrant box ... This is what helped me

1. Ensure www-data has permissions to the .htaccess file

     
       sudo chown www-data.www-data .htaccess
     
   

2. edit the apache2 conf to allow for symlinks etc

     
       sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
     
   

   Add this to the file

<Directory /var/www/html/>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
  AllowOverride all
  Require all granted
</Directory>

3. Restart your apache2 server

   sudo service apache2 restart

I hope this helps someone.

Answer 2

In addition to all the answers if you still encounter some variation of the problem, edit the .env file and set APP_URL to your domain name as in:

 APP_URL=similar_to_my_avatar_link 

Answer 3

In httpd.conf file you need to remove #

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

after removing # line will look like this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

And Apache restart