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Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Posted by Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

Laravel 4 Basics -- Having Trouble Getting Additional Routes to Work

I'm just getting started with Laravel 4 and trying to learn how it works. I added the following code to the routes.php file. 

Route::get('/', function()
{
    return View::make('hello')->withName('friend');    
});


Route::get('/test', function()
{
    return View::make('hello')->withName('test');    
});

I'm running this on a WAMP server on Windows 7.

The path to my app is: localhost/laravelbasics/public

When I visit the first url it works fine: 

But it gives me a 404 "file not found" error when I visit the test route: 
```localhost/laravelbasics/public/test```

Any clue what I'm doing wrong?

4 Answers

Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

Alright, I found out what was going wrong.

To get it to recognize the new route, I had to use this as the URL:

http://localhost/laravelbasics/public/index.php/test

Kind of a weird way to do it, but hey it works now. That was painful. lol

jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points
jason chan
jason chan
31,009 Points

localhost/laravelbasics/public/test

you made the route /test

Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

It gives me a 404 when I visit localhost/laravelbasics/public/test, Jason. It's not hitting the route "/test" that I created.

All of the routes should be relevant to the /public directory, right?

So if I created a route "/duh", you should reach it at localhost/laravelbasics/public/duh, right?

Or am I missing something about Laravel routing?

lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points
lakindujayathilaka
lakindujayathilaka
15,244 Points

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Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

Appreciate the offer, but I'm really busy right now, Lakindu. Trying to pad out my portfolio to go after a specific job. Good luck with your project.

Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points
Roy Penrod
Roy Penrod
19,810 Points

Yes. The view is working for the root route, but the same view will not work for the test route. If you look at my code above, the only difference is the route and the value of the same variable.