Deploy Laravel to domain subfolder

Question

Intro

I am struggling to deploy a Laravel project to a domain subfolder... Here's the complete "story":

My teacher has control of the machine at: http://ilp.fe.up.pt/
He created a user for me called mitocondrias so I could use it via ssh like:
ssh mitocondrias@ilp.fe.up.pt

He also set the usual public_html folder to be called html only.

So, to sum up, if I create a simple hello world index.html at /home/mitocondrias/html/ I can successfully see it at http://ilp.fe.up.pt/mitocondrias/

What I did

Now, regarding the Laravel deploy, here is what I did:

I cloned my Laravel project called CoExpr to my user home: /home/mitocondrias/coexpr

I deleted the html folder and created a symlink to /home/mitocondrias/coexpr/public called html with the following command:

mitocondrias@ilp:~$ ln -s ~/coexpr/public/ html

So, here is the final tree structure:

ilp.fe.up.pt/        (the root of my teacher web hosting)
|
|-- mitocondrias/    (my user home, aka /home/mitocondrias)
|   |
|   |-- coexpr/      (the Laravel project)
|   |   |
|   |   |-- [...]
|   |   |-- public/
|   |   |-- [...]
|   |
|   |-- html/        (this is actually not a folder,
|   |                 but a symlink to /home/mitocondrias/coexpr/public/)

I also ran the following commands to set the correct Laravel permissions:

chmod -R 755 coexpr/
chmod -R o+w storage

The problem

After all this, I can successfully see the landing page at: http://ilp.fe.up.pt/mitocondrias/ (the equivalent of localhost:8000 if I were serving the app with php artisan serve)

But when I try to use other routes, like: http://ilp.fe.up.pt/mitocondrias/explorer (the equivalent to localhost:8000/explorer) I get:

404 Not Found
The requested URL /home/mitocondrias/html/index.php was not found on this server.

What did I do wrong..?

Extra info

In case this is relevant, the .htaccess in /home/mitocondrias/coexpr/public/ is as it was generated upon the Laravel project creation with composer - I did not touch it:

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

    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

And because of the symlink, this is also the .htaccess at /home/mitocondrias/html/.

End

So, that's it... Aff, this was a long post... Thanks in advance!

Maybe its easiest to just ask your teacher to use `public` as the web root instead of `html` and move everything up one level, getting rid of `coexpr/` and the symlink. Would that be possible? — Jan Papenbrock, May 18 '16 at 13:57
Ah, maybe you have a duplicate slash in there. `ln -s ~/coexpr/public/ html` - looks like you might only need `ln -s ~/coexpr/public html` — Jan Papenbrock, May 18 '16 at 13:58
@JanPapenbrock I think the slash right after public is indifferent — Henrique Ferrolho, May 19 '16 at 18:43
Yes, I think so, too. Check my answer below for the most probably solution. — Jan Papenbrock, May 19 '16 at 22:23
@JanPapenbrock I'm waiting for my teacher to apply the changes (I'm not on the sudoers list). I'll come back to you as soon as I've got any news. — Henrique Ferrolho, May 19 '16 at 22:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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This related question provides a debugging hint: Check if the route works with /index.php/, to see if the problem is related to .htaccess.

Loading http://ilp.fe.up.pt/mitocondrias/index.php/explorer works!

So for some reason your .htaccess is not working.

Maybe simply enabling it will fix your problem, as stated in this answer to another related question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 18 '16 at 15:00

Jan Papenbrock

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After running `a2enmod rewrite` and editing `apache2.conf` to `AllowOverride All`, the `.htaccess` is still not working... Here is a copy of the current `/etc/apache2/apache2.conf` : http://pastebin.com/raw/BN3hHjr7 – Henrique Ferrolho May 21 '16 at 17:10
Just to be clear of simple errors: Did you restart Apache after these changes? Also, is there a site-specific configuration for your VirtualHost - in `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/yourfilename.conf` – Jan Papenbrock May 22 '16 at 07:08
Yes, we did restart Apache. Here is the content of `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf`: http://pastebin.com/raw/5TS8jnq9 – Henrique Ferrolho May 22 '16 at 13:53

Deploy Laravel to domain subfolder

Intro

What I did

The problem

Extra info

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