Laravel 4 Routing (controller not found) - laravel

Question

Help please, i am using Laravel4 but for some reason i can not get it to work on my mac at home,i have no problems with the mac at work, either i am missing something obvious or my mac is set up different.
the problem i am having is that i can only get the HomeController To Work if i try to use the Test Controller i get Controller method not found. the whooops error gives Controller Method Not Found
REDIRECT_URL /test
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD GET
QUERY_STRING
REQUEST_URI /test
SCRIPT_NAME /index.php
PATH_INFO /test
PATH_TRANSLATED redirect
my routes
Route::controller('test', 'TestController');
and my Test Controller
class TestController extends BaseController {
public function getIndex()
{
return View::make('test.index');
}
}
my htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
rewrites are enabled
am i missing the obvious?
thanks for any help

Answer 1

I had a similar situation in my local development environment. The Laravel 4 app that was deployed on my remote server was working perfectly, however I couldn't get it to work on my local machine. The problem was that only the root folder of the app (/public - Home Controller) was accessible and none of my routes were working.
The problem was in the configuration of Apache which was not allowing loading of .htaccess files. My solution was to define a new Directory statement for my sites path as follows:
<Directory "/path/to/your/sites">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
You may insert this in httpd.conf or in any configuration file that is being loaded. If there is already a definition for that path, you should update it accordingly. In my case I added the code above to my httpd-vhosts.conf file along with the virtual host definition:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin your#email.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/your/sites/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.dev
ServerAlias www.laravel.dev
</VirtualHost>
Finally add this line to your /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
In this way, you can reach your local environment via this URI: http://laravel.dev