Nothing accessible in my Laravel project except the home page - laravel

Question

been searching for the past 3 days about configuring laravel 5.4 on my linux mint 18.2 system running apache 2.4 . when apache server starts and i manually type in localhost in the browser,it does show up the default home page of laravel , but when i try to access it through live preview in brackets (live preview base url : http://localhost as my laravel project pro lies in /var/www/html/)but it throws internal server error corresponding to the errors in my apache configuration.So here i put forward my .htaccess file , 000-default.conf file in sites-enabled directory of apache2 and apache2.conf files :
One important thing : i got my project folder pro under /var/www/html/
1. 000-default.conf(sites-enabled)
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/pro/public
<Directory /var/www/html/pro/public>
Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
2. apache2.conf
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
3 .htaccess (/var/www/html/pro/public/.htaccess)
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /var/www/html/pro/public/
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
thank you before hand!

Answer 1

Your all routes would be available after index.php, i mean if your route's url is abc, then it will be open as http://localhost/index.php/abc. Now you don't need to change anything in .htacesss file.
Go to your project root and give the read write execute permissions, so that laravel will able to cache the file inside bootstrap/cache directory and able to create your logs file inside storage/logs directory.
sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R 777 storage/logs
If your project didn't run after that also, then sometimes you need to give this permission also.
sudo chmod -R 777 vendor/ storage/
Run these three commands after that
sudo a2ensite 000-default.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
your route should be served after localhost.
Hope this will help :)

Answer 2

Try giving read/write permissions to your storage and bootstrap folder in laravel. Also setup virtual hosts if you can. Refer here.