Remove index.php From Sub directory websites URL

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I am currently in the process of moving a large number of subdomain websites to become sub directory websites. e.g. site1.website.com => website.com/site1. All of these sites use the same code in the same directory. The code will read the site name and load the correct database if it exists. So i have the following alias formatting for all sites.

Alias  /site1 /var/www/laravel/public

Without needing to explain too much, laravel is an MVC framework and index.php is the only file that i need to route traffic through. Because of this all of the URLS need to have index.php as a prefix, but this is really ugly and i cant seem to get rid of it.

I tried the following which worked when the website was a subdomain, but it doesnt work now. When i use this code website.com/site1/login will redirect to website.com/login.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

All websites are dynamic so i dont want to hardcode a rule for every single website. Is there a way i can handle this?

this kind of worked. The urls arent redirecting to the main website, but its still giving a 404 error. The requested URL /site1/login was not found on this server. — Dan Hastings
– Dan Hastings, Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 10:34
You have regular routes.php or dealing something dynamic in it ? — Sulthan Allaudeen
– Sulthan Allaudeen, Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 10:37
just regular routes.php. The only thing that i have dynamic is the database connection. everything else worked just fine when it was a subdomain — Dan Hastings
– Dan Hastings, Commented Jun 21, 2015 at 10:39

PiranhaGeorge · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-21 10:48:53Z

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Set a RewriteBase for the new folder, like so:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site1/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

edited Jun 21, 2015 at 10:48

answered Jun 21, 2015 at 10:44

PiranhaGeorge

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Dan Hastings Over a year ago

awesome! this worked. Do you know if its possible to do this dynamically? I have a lot of subdomains and i will be adding more in the future so it would be nice if i didnt have to add a new one each time.

PiranhaGeorge Over a year ago

I misread your question before. I'm not really use why RewriteBase / wouldn't work. Surely Laravel will deal with the directories for you?

Dan Hastings Over a year ago

for some reason when i set RewriteBase / it will just display the home page from the main website. Your above code has worked perfectly, its just a lot of manual code to write so if i could set the base dynamically it would be perfect. i have root access to the server so i can change anything i need to in apaches conf files

PiranhaGeorge Over a year ago

I found stackoverflow.com/questions/21062290/… does this do it?

Dan Hastings Over a year ago

actually this worked! RewriteRule ^ %{ENV:BASE}/index.php [L] . i removed the reqwritebase completely

Nirav Patel · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-21 10:32:36Z

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you can manage connection from laravel\config\database.php for your each site.

then you can set all sub domain will be point on one location, now you need to update update just database.php when you add new website.

answered Jun 21, 2015 at 10:32

Nirav Patel

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Dan Hastings Over a year ago

the database isnt the issue its index.php in the url. the database connections are working fine

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