My Routes are Returning a 404 How can I Fix Them

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I ve just started learning the Laravel framework and I m having an issue with routing   The only route that s working is the default home route that s attached to Laravel out of the box   I m using WAMP on Windows and it uses PHP 5 4 3  and Apache 2 2 22  and I also have mod rewrite enabled  and have removed the  index php  from the application php config file to leave an empty string   I ve created a new controller called User   class User Controller extends Base Controller        public  restful   true       public function get index                  return View  make  user index              I ve created a view file in application views user  called index php with some basic HTML code  and in routes php I ve added the following   Route  get      function          return View  make  home index         Route  get  user   function          return View  make  user index          The first route works fine when visiting the root  http   localhost mysite public  in my web browser  but when I try to go to my second route with http   localhost mysite public user I get a 404 Not Found error  Why would this be happening

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Have you tried to check if   http   localhost mysite public index php user    was working  If so then make sure all your path s folders don t have any uppercase letters  I had the same situation and converting letters to lower case helped

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Don t forget the  RewriteBase  in your public  htaccess    For example    Options  FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase  your folder public

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OK  so after bashing my head on this problem for a little over a day    I got up and did what I SHOULD have done yesterday  and DEBUGGED what was going on   What Laravel is TRYING to do here  is insert the file index php right in front of the path given as a Route  SO for instance  if you specified a Route  get   account create        and execute your app from say localhost laravel authenticate public account create on your browser  then laravel wants to execute localhost authenticate public index php account create  but to do that     Apache needs to see that requests through  wamp www laravel laravel authentication public  your path may vary somewhat  depending on where your laravel app is actually installed  but the trailing public is where the substitution needs to take place  must have a  RewriteRule  applied   Thankfully  laravel supplies the correct Rewrite rule in a handy  htaccess file right there in your app s public folder  The PROBLEM is  the code in that   htaccess  file won t work with the way WAMP is configured out of the box  The reason for this SEEMS to be the problem suggested by muvera at the top of this thread -- the rewrite module code needs to be loaded by Apache before the RewriteRule stuff will work  Heck this makes sense   The part that DOESN T make sense  simply stopping and restarting Apache services will not pick up the changes necessary for WAMP to do the right thing with your RewriteRule -- I know  I tried this many times   What DOES work  make the changes suggested by muvera  see top of thread  to load the correct modules  Then  reset your whole Windows session  thus dumping Apache out of memory altogether  Restart  reload  WAMP  and VOILA  the fix works  the correct RewriteRule is applied  yada  yada  I m living happily ever after   The good news out of all this  I know a LOT more about  htaccess  RewriteRule  and httpd conf files now  There is a good  performance  argument for moving the logic from your app s public  htaccess file  and putting it into a Directory     section of your httpd conf in your Apache  bin  folder BTW  especially if you have access to that folder

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you  must be using Laravel 5 the command    class User Controller extends Controller     public  restful   true    public function get index      return View  user index              and in routes php    Route  get      function         return view  home index             Route  get  user   function         return view  user index            Laravel 5 command changes for view and controller see the documentation i was having same error before

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Routes  Use them to define specific routes that aren t managed by controllers   Controllers  Use them when you want to use traditional MVC architecture  Solution to your problem  You don t register controllers as routes unless you want a specific  named  route for a controller action   Rather than create a route for your controllers actions  just register your controller   Route  controller  user      Now your controller is registered  you can navigate to http   localhost mysite public user and your get index will be run   You can also register all controllers in one go   Route  controller Controller  detect

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You could try to move root public  htaccess to root  htaccess and it should work

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If you re using Vagrant though Homestead  it s possible there was an error mounting the shared folder  It looks like Vagrant takes your files from that folder and swaps out the files that are actually on the host machine on boot  so if there was an error  you re essentially trying to access your Laravel installation from when you first made it  which is why you re only getting  home - that was generated during installation     You can easily check this by sshing into your vm and checking the routes web php file to see if it s actually your file  If it isn t  exit out and vagrant halt  vagrant up  and look for errors on boot

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Just Run in your terminal    composer dump-autoload

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Route  get      function     return View  make  home index         Route  get  user   function     return View  make  user index          change above to   Route  get  user   function     return View  make  user index         Route  get      function     return View  make  home index          You have to use     home default  at the end in your routes

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I think you have deleted default  htaccess file inside the laravel public folder  upload the file it should fix your problem

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Have you tried adding this to your routes file instead Route  get  user    user index     The piece of text before the    user in this case  will direct the page to the user controller and the piece of text after the    index  will direct the script to the user function public function get index     I see you re using  restful  in which case you could set your Route to Route  any  user    user index    This will handle both POST and GET  instead of writing them both out separately

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setup  env file  configure index html make sure u have  htaccess sudo service apache2 restart   most probably it s due to cache problems

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I was getting the same problem using EasyPHP   Found that I had to specify AllowOverride All in my  lt Directory gt  block in httpd conf    Without this  Apache sometimes ignores your  htaccess   Mine ended up looking like this      lt Directory  D  Dev  gt      Options FollowSymLinks Indexes          NEXT IS THE CRUCIAL LINE          AllowOverride All                       Order deny allow     Allow from 127 0 0 1     Deny from all     Require all granted       lt  Directory gt

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On my Ubuntu LAMP installation  I solved this problem with the following 2 changes    Enable mod rewrite on the apache server  sudo a2enmod rewrite  Edit  etc apache2 apache2 conf  changing the  AllowOverride  directive for the  var www directory  which is my main document root   AllowOverride All   Then restart the Apache server  service apache2 restart

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The Main problem of route not working is there is  mod rewrite so module in macos  linux not enabled in httpd conf file of apache configuration  so can  htaccess to work  i have solved this by uncomment the line     LoadModule rewrite module libexec apache2 mod rewrite so  Remove the   from above line of httpdf conf  Then it will works  enjoy

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Try enabling short php tags in your php ini  WAMP has them off usually and laravel needs them on

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the simple Commands with automatic loads the dependencies  composer dump-autoload   and still getting that your some important files are missing so go here to see whole procedure  https   codingexpertise blogspot com 2018 11 laravel-new html

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Using WAMP click on wamp icon - apache- apache modules- scroll and check rewrite module Restart a LoadModule rewrite module  Note  the server application restarts automatically for you once you enable  rewrite module

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