Why can't I go to other routes then homepage on deployed laravel project on server? - apache

Question

i just deployed my laravel project to digital ocean. The mysql database is correctly migrated and seeded (checked in phpmyadmin). I can currently surf to the homepage. But when i start going to other pages like http://-ip-adress-/test it gives me a 404 Not found errorpage. After going trough some forums i think it has something to do with my apache configuration and the modrewrite rule. So i will provide all the files i edited to try and fix this :
I did :
a2enmod rewrite
sudo chmod -R 755 bootstrap/cache
sudo chown -R www-data: storage
sudo chmod -R 755 storage
.htacess file in public folder :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /var/www/gloops/public/
# change above to your site i.e., RewriteBase /whatever/public/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
apache2.conf file in /etc/apache2 :
ServerName localhost
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/gloops/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
000-default.conf in etc/apache2/sites-enabled :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/gloops/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

Set AllowOverride to All and make sure directory path is pointed to your app root not /var/www/gloops/public on your apache config:
<Directory /var/www/gloops>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Then type following commands from your app root directory,
$ sudo chmod -R 0777 bootstrap/cache
$ sudo chmod -R 0777 storage
$ php artisan key:generate
$ php artisan cache:clear
$ php artisan optimize
I don't think that 0777 is good, you can try with 0775 but for me 0775 is not working.