Laravel 4 All Routes Except Home Result in 404 Error

I installed Laravel 4 using Composer and also set up a virtual host. Currently, only the root route is working:

<?php

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

This is not:

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

What I'm trying to hit is TasksController at /tasks:

Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController');

This is giving me 404 error as well. What could I be doing wrong? I have a default .htaccess file at the root of my project:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options -MultiViews
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I am using localhost on a Mac.

Solution 1:

Just for a laugh, see if /index.php/hello works.

If so, then most likely it's a .htaccess problem.

Solution 2:

Had the same problem running Laravel 4 on WAMP (Windows 8).
The solution that worked for me was:

1. Open apache httpd.conf and find this line :

   #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
   

2. Uncomment this line (remove the #)
3. Save httpd.conf
4. Restart WAMP

It should be working!

Solution 3:

I had the same problem and the solution was enable the rewrite mod on Apache2

In a terminal use the following commands:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
$ sudo service apache2 restart

And magic!

Solution 4:

Had exactly the same problem.

Two things I needed to do to fix this:

1. enable rewrite_module in Apache

2. Change the AllowOverride from None to All, example (Apache 2.4.9):

   <Directory "c:/www">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
   

FYI:
use Laravel Homestead together with VirtualBox and Vagrant instead of WAMP. It contains Nginx instead of Apache but everything works by default as it is configured for Laravel explicitly.

Solution 5:

FOR UBUNTU USERS - tested for Ubuntu 18.04

1- Enable mod rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

2- Change AllowOverride in apache conf file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Change the AllowOverride from None to All in this block

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

3- Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart