404 error from apache2 with laravel / working well with "php artisan serve" but nor with apache2

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[craggy bear]

Please put some effort into providing context to your question, or nobody can help you.

Read this: https://discord.com/channels/297040613688475649/1270372863412801587

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i searched for posts in #1019646242709569617 but nothing like me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcFBZxVTmBU i watched this video to do the project

on welcom.blade.php i have put a link to thi page

all of this is with apache2 server on debian 12

[craggy bear]

You have to set up vhosts with apache2, so you point the document root to the Laravel public directory

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but if i do "php artisan serve" cmd, all is working fine

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yes i have done that but not working

[craggy bear]

You need to reload/restart apache2 after changing vhosts.

I do not remember the command for that, but you can Google it

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yes i have restarted

its sudo systemctl restart apache2

[craggy bear]

SeverName needs to be your actual domain

also repas-site isn't a TLD? is this local?

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all is for local

the link to not found page is "Planifier un repas"

[craggy bear]

idk why you dont just use .test like most people, but anyways, your ServerName needs to be repas-site.repas-site in that case and also edit your hostsfile to point that domain to localhost (seems you've done that already)

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i dont need to modify domain because its working for welcome page

[craggy bear]

im not gonna argue if its correct or not, you're the one asking for help, not me. good luck

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i dont understand why you said to me to change servername if its working for 1 page because its working for all page or none

[craggy bear]

If it's working, why are you asking for help then? I've pointed out to you, that your vhosts is likely misconfigured. I told you what to check, pointed out those 4 lines you shared look wrong according to what Apache gives as examples. You didn't provide much detail, even though I said in my first message please provide context. You took a cropped screenshot with minimal config and didn't share the config path either. If you placed it in it's own config, you need to write some bonkers apache command to enable it as well. Many of us don't use apache today, nginx is preferred or even something like caddy. I do not know what you want from me, if you're not going to take my responses into practice.

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the domain is working, not all the config or code

[craggy bear]

@frozen cape feel free to help instead of clowning about

[craggy bear]

Which is what I am saying? You most likely have a misconfigured vhosts, have you looked up vhosts examples for Laravel via Google and put it into practice? You shared like 20% of the config to begin with

[hushed sinew]

which part of config d you need?

[craggy bear]

The vhosts and your .htaccess probably

Or you could swap to NGINX and just copy the config from here: https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/deployment#nginx

[frozen cape]

Sorry if you find my reactions offensive, I am thinking your responses are valid and on-point despite "not being taken into practice" and the whole interaction feels funny.

A quick search would show how Apache configuration works, and it also seemed to me ServerName needs to match the host part of the HTTP request, so that does look like a good place to start.

[craggy bear]

Laravel has an htaccess already so use that and just configure the vhosts: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/11.x/public/.htaccess

Issue most likely caused by your .htaccess then

But if you're not familiar with Apache or NGINX, I'd advise to familiarize yourself with NGINX instead

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the one in public is that:

[craggy bear]

You should not have two .htaccess

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ho ok

[frozen cape]

I haven't used Apache with Laravel for ages (I did this around L4, before moving entirely with Nginx) so I couldn't say for sure, but it doesn't hurt to put the correct values into practice.

You needed to make sure that there aren't any other .htaccess overwriting the configuration (since I remember Apache reading every single .htaccess file in each directory up to the project directory)

There are other help as well like this one in configuring Apache, and honestly we couldn't know better how you're configuring yours or what steps you have tried.

[craggy bear]

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName repas-site.repas-site
    DocumentRoot /var/www/repas-site/public

    <Directory /var/www/repas-site/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

this is a bare minimum vhosts for apache from a quick google, i do not use apache so i cannot say with certainty what else you need to put here

lots of StackOverflow answers with more context available

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yes i thinks its the minimu

[craggy bear]

So does it work after only having the .htaccess in public and with the above config?

See this SO post for detailed answers regarding Apache: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49184358/setting-document-root-for-laravel-project-on-apache-virtual-host

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Directory tag is needed, i believed that directory and filesmatch is same but with different params