How to setup Apache to run Laravel rooted from a subpath? - apache

Question

The DocumentRoot of example.com is in /var/www/html.
Laravel is installed in /var/www/example/public and I can access it using http://example.com/dashboard but problem arises when I try to access other routes like as http://example.com/dashboard/login and is throwing 404 Not Found error. And saying The requested URL /var/www/example/public/index.php was not found on this server. Can anyone please guide me?
The .htaccess file in the public directory is untouched.
Here is the 000-default.conf:
ServerName example.com
UseCanonicalName Off
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /dashboard /var/www/example/public
<Directory /var/www/example/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
#dynamic subdomain provisioning
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/example/public
ServerName user.example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
<Directory /var/www/example/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

I could solve using the following in the 000-default.conf file:
<Directory /var/www/example/public>
DirectoryIndex index.php
AcceptPathInfo on
AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
And had to change the laravel .htaccess in the following way:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /dashboard
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ dashboard/$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>