Trying to get through public folder in Laravel

Question

I have setup Apache to serve myapp directory as the root one.

My folder structure (a bit simplified) is:

myapp/
├── backend
│   ├── app
│   ├── artisan
│   ├── bootstrap
│   ├── composer.json
│   ├── composer.lock
│   ├── config
│   ├── database
│   ├── doc
│   ├── node_modules
│   ├── package.json
│   ├── public
│   ├── resources
│   ├── server.php
│   ├── storage
│   ├── tests
│   └── vendor
├── frontend
└── .htaccess

myapp/.htaccess looks like this:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ backend/public/$1

However, when I try to load localhost/api/someController, I get Not Found Http Exception - 404. When I place the root in /var/www/html/ try to load localhost/myapp/backend/public/someController, it does work.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Try routing it to index.php:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ backend/public/index.php/$1