laravel 5.6 and apache gives 404 for urls - laravel

Question

I have apache2 server on Ubuntu 16.04LTS and I have Laravel 5.6 project called book_donation in /var/www/html now when I visit localhost the Laravel welcome screens appear no problem but whenever I click on any url it gives:
Not Found
The requested URL /book_donation/public/login was not found on this
server. Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80
and here is .htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
and here is my /etc/apache2/site-available/000-default.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
<Directory "/var/www/html">
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</Directory>
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet
My php version is 7.1 and apache version is 2.4.18, how to solve this?

Answer 1

As stated in the docs, you should configure your web server's document / web root to be the public directory.
Create a new file /etc/apache2/site-available/book_donation.test.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName book_donation.test
ServerAlias www.book_donation.test
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/book_donation/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Edit your /etc/hosts file and add the following:
127.0.1.1 book_donation.test
Then run:
sudo a2ensite book_donation.test.conf
sudo service apache2 restart
Then you should be able to visit book_donation.test and see your site.

Answer 2

I was facing same problem any new route was not working and gave 404 error. Also check php artisan route:list where new route details showing properly but still it was not working. I also tried following command to make it work
php artisan view:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
Here are my project details
My DocumentRoot is /var/www/html/project/public. when add new route in web.php, it was nor working and gave 404 error but root route was working fine. Means any new route was working. so I did following changes and it start working.
changed in /etc/apache2/sites-available/project.conf
<Directory /var/www/html/project/public>
**Allowoverride All**
and enable url rewrite by running sudo a2enmod rewrite
restart apache server by running sudo systemctl restart apache2