Laravel Hosted in Subdirectory

Question

A client has requested a website built and now that it has been built, they've requested it be hosted alongside their existing website but in a subdirectory (example.com/example/path).

What I'm dealing with now is figuring out the required apache rules to host this correctly. I've uploaded the entire project structure to that directory. Within the public directory (/example/path/public) I have the following .htaccess file (henceforth I'll refer to this as the Laravel .htaccess):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /example/path

    # 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]


    # Serve Cached Page If Available...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/?$
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/page-cache/pc__index__pc.html -f
    RewriteRule .? page-cache/pc__index__pc.html [L]
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/page-cache%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
    RewriteRule . page-cache%{REQUEST_URI}.html [L]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|otf)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2628000, public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch ".(css|js)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public"
</FilesMatch>

I have added the RewriteBase line based on me trying to find a solution to this.

Within the base .htaccess file (/example/path/.htaccess), I have the following:

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
    Alias /example/path /home/www/<user>/html/example/path
    <Directory "/home/www/<user>/html/example/path">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</IfModule>

The problem is however that this returns an internal server error. I've tried other potential solutions that don't use Alias that instead return 40X errors.

I need to be able to have the Laravel site fully working when a user visits example.com/example/path. I've tried numerous solutions over the past 90 minutes and none have worked.

What is the correct solution to my situation?

Answer 1

In public folder we have hosted 8 platforms and each platform's root directory we have this .htaccess configuration. hope this helps you.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
 
    <ifmodule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </ifmodule>
     
    RewriteEngine On
     
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
    RewriteRule ^ ^$1 [N]
 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.\w+$) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 
 
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ server.php
 
</ifmodule>