Laravel Solution: Cannot configure Laravel API on a subdirectory via .htaccess

dimanche 31 mars 2019

Cannot configure Laravel API on a subdirectory via .htaccess

I have the following dummy local website (configured through two different virtual hosts):

[vhost 1] https://www.test-laravel.com

DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/[WEBSITE-DIR]"

[vhost 2] https://www.test-laravel-direct.com

DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/[WEBSITE-DIR]/laravel/public"

You can check it out here through GitHub:

https://github.com/napolev/test-laravel.com

Inside its directory I dropped 4 files:

index.php
page_01.php
page_02.php
page_03.php

with the same content (just to indicate the current file):

<?
echo 'You are on: '.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
?>

Also, inside its directory I installed Laravel with:

$ laravel new api

On file: laravel\routes\api.php I configured the following route:

Route::post('/echo-post', function (Request $request) {
    return request()->all();
});

If I use [vhost 2] with Postman, using the following POST URL request:
(this case the domain is pointing to the subdirectory: /laravel/public instead the root directory)

https://www.test-laravel-direct.com/api/echo-post?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3

I get the expected response:

{
    "param1": "value1",
    "param2": "value2",
    "param3": "value3"
}

Then, I want to use [vhost 1] with Postman, using the following POST URL request:
(this case the domain is pointing to the root directory instead the subdirectory: /laravel/public)

https://www.test-laravel.com/api/echo-post?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3

For that I configured the root .htaccess file like:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /laravel/

RewriteRule ^api/(.*)$ /api/$1 [L]

But when running the request with Postman I get the following output:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
        <p>The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.</p>
        <p>Please contact the server administrator at 
 admin@example.com to inform them of the time this error occurred,
 and the actions you performed just before this error.</p>
        <p>More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.</p>
    </body>
</html>

On the Apache error log I get the following:

AH00124: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.

Do you have any idea on how can I use [vhost 1] with the following POST URL request?

https://www.test-laravel.com/api/echo-post?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3

Thanks!

via Chebli Mohamed