.htaccess - Laravel Routes not working, Apache configuration only allows for public/index.php/route

Question

Example:

Route::get('/get', function() {
    return 'get';
});

To view the route above, I must navigate to public/index.php/get.

I've viewed quite a few SO posts and googled around trying different things and it hasn't made a difference (yes I restart apache every time).

Here is my .htaccess in the public directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>

# For all files not found in the file system, reroute the request to the
# "index.php" front controller, keeping the query string intact

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

What could be causing this still? I'm running Ubuntu.

Answer 1

Two most common causes of this behavior are:

1. mod_rewrite not enabled

   sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

2. AllowOverride is set to None, set it to All, assuming Apache2.4

   sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

search for <Directory /var/www/> and change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All, then save the file and restart apache