Error The requested URL login was not found on this server Apache Ubuntu Server at mydomain com Port 80

Question

When I load pages that are not root, the page won't load without index.php before the route. The error I get: 

The requested URL /login was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at mydomain.com Port 80

To start with I have a virtual host file containing:

//also tried adding DirectoryIndex here before <directory>
<directory /var/www/mydomain.com>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride ALL
</directory>

and a .htacces in my public with :

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

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

When running the website localy with xampp everything works fine. For hours i'm trying now but I can't fix it or find any error (logs are empty) or any solutions that I haven't tried yet.

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

 your directory path is wrong. You need /public on the end because Laravel treats that directory as the web root. Try this:

<directory /var/www/mydomain.com/public>
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AllowOverride ALL
</directory>

But the better solution is to put the contents of the .htaccess file in your virtual host. Like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/mydomain.com/public"
    ServerName mydomain.com
    ServerAlias *.mydomain.com

    <Directory "/var/www/mydomain.com/public">
        # Ignore the .htaccess file in this directory
        AllowOverride None

        # Make pretty URLs
        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
                Options -MultiViews
            </IfModule>

            RewriteEngine On

            # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
            RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

            # Handle Front Controller...
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
        </IfModule>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Also, you should make sure your config file is loaded by running:

apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

This will print a list of all the loaded vhosts. If yours isn't in that list then make sure it is enabled by running:

a2ensite [name_of_your_config_file]

Then restart apache with:

service apache2 reload

Hope it helps!!