Can't make Laravel 4 to work on localhost

Question

I\'m trying Laravel for the first time after reading an announcement of the Laravel4 beta releasing.

I followed these steps I installed composer and laravel with all

Answer 1

I had the same problem, here is how I solve it: In your httpd-vhosts.conf files you need to add the configurations to your folders, this is what I have in mine

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin your@mail.com
    DocumentRoot "/home/carlospublic_html"
    ServerName carlos.local
    <Directory "/home/carlos/public_html">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>>

Answer 2

Checking on the Requirement for the LR4, your local server must have these: PHP >= 5.3.7 MCrypt PHP Extension

Otherwise, will fail. I am facing this trouble also and now looking for an updated PHP and its extension for my XAMPP.

Answer 3

You need to add: Options +FollowSymLinks

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine on 
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] 
</IfModule>

Answer 4

You need to read the installation documentation:

http://laravel.com/docs/installation#configuration

Pay attention to the bit here:

Laravel requires one set of permissions to be configured - folders within app/storage require write access by the web server.

There is also other stuff thats useful in that document, so make sure you read it all.

Answer 5

First, this answer here will help you with permissions. Second, you may need to add RewriteBase ~/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop to your .htaccess since you're running it out of a home directory.

Answer 6

Try to change the folder permissions for the storage folder using the terminal:

chmod -R 777 storage

More info on this matter can be found here.