Reputation:

How to correctly deploy a Laravel application on XAMPP Apache?

I am pretty new in Laravel and I am finding the following problem.

I have put my application in this folder:

C:\xampp\htdocs\HotelRegistration\

Starting it via the statment:

php artisan serve

it is correctly started here: http://127.0.0.1:8000

For some reason I need to run it with XAMPP Apache server instead the one provided by php artisan serve

So I started Apache from XAMPP but trying to open:

http://127.0.0.1:80/HotelRegistration/

but so the application can't start and I obtain the list of directory and file contained in this folder.

Why? What is wrong? What am I missing? Maybe something related to virtual host? How can I fix this issue?

Tnx

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

Reputation:

Solved by myself, I create a virtual host in Apache and using this URL works

Upvotes: 0

Reputation: 1182

php artisan serve creates a web server that shows the public folder of your app.

As a good practice, you should setup your hosting to show that public folder while hidding the rest of the program from unwanted visitors.

Check this links about it:

For development, that isn't too much of a trouble.

Upvotes: 3

Reputation: 111

You can use the below to run your application. But it can fail to load the basic css file.

http://localhost/HotelRegistration/public/

Hope its help you.

Upvotes: 0