Setup subdirectory redirect to a Laravel project - apache

Question

I have three projects, First one is a static html website and other 2 projects are Laravel projects.
I have an SSL certificate set up for the main website. I want to setup the other Laravel projects as subdirectories of the main URL.
I added an alias to my conf file, but it doesn't work. I get this error: "Too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://example.com/admin/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which then is redirected to open the original page."
Are there any changes that I should add to htaccess file?
Here is my website.conf file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
Redirect permanent / https://example.com/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/***********.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/*********.key
SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/*********.crt
ServerAdmin admin#example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/example/public_html/
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /admin "/var/www/html/admin"
<Directory "/var/www/html/admin">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /admin2 "/var/www/html/admin2"
<Directory "/var/www/html/admin2">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Answer 1

I would suggest taking a look at Vagrant with Laravel Homestead prebuilt box. This will achieve what you want to do by editing the Homestead.yaml file, the /etc/hosts file, and then provisioning the vagrant machine. You will need virtual box installed to work with vagrant. You can SSH into the machine by typing vagrant ssh inside the homestead directory.
Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/homestead
YouTube Video about Vagrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyIyyFDgO4o
Youtube Videos about Installing Laravel Homestead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbPGuikTzKk&list=PLfdtiltiRHWEaImCreOC7UkK4U5Xv9LdI

Answer 2

You should use the public folder as your alias in the apache setup.
Try "/var/www/html/admin2/public" and also for the Directory as well.
Something like this:
Alias /admin2 "/var/www/html/admin2/public"
<Directory "/var/www/html/admin2/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Depends on the installation of Laravel, you should have an .htaccess file in the public directory, which might require some additional tweeking.
Also, restart apache once you have made the change.t

Answer 3

You need to correctly set 2 things :
Your sites's alias in WAMP's alias folder e.g. C:\wamp\alias to redirect URL to public\index.php in Laravel's folder
Rewrite base .htaccess in your Laravel's public folder so that Apache rewrites on top of a base path.
Assuming that your site's directory is in C:\wamp\www\site and your alias is localhost/alias
Setting alias to point to public folder:
Alias /site "/var/www/site/public"
<Directory "/var/www/site/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Add RewriteBase in .htaccess in Laravel's public folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase '/site/'
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>