[SOLVED] Apache Configuration for laravel installation on directadmin

Issue

I am trying to install Laravel on vps with Direct admin. Below is my Apache config file

<VirtualHost MYIP:80 >
    ServerName www.domain.com
    ServerAlias www.domain.com domain.com
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot /home/mydir/domains/domain.com/public_html
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/mydir/domains/domain.com/public_html/cgi-bin/
    UseCanonicalName OFF
    <IfModule !mod_ruid2.c>
            SuexecUserGroup mydir mydir
    </IfModule>
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.bytes bytes
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.log combined
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.error.log
    <Directory /home/mydir/domains/domain.com/public_html>
            php_admin_flag safe_mode OFF
            php_admin_flag engine ON
            php_admin_value sendmail_path '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f chat$
            php_admin_value mail.log /home/mydir/.php/php-mail.log
            php_admin_value open_basedir /home/mydir/:/tmp:/var/tmp:/usr/loc$
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

According to the Laravel manual I have to point to the public directory. After I set doc root to /home/mydir/domains/domain.com/public_html/public I get this error when I try to access domain.com

500 Internal Server Error

UPDATE: /var/log/httpd/domains/domain.com.error.log contains this Laravel error

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/mydir/domains/domain.com/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/helpers.php on line 411

Solution

Firstly if you have root access .. you can check your php version ...

php -v 

upgrade it to php 5.4 .

i have installed Laravel in Directadmin successfully by using below .htaccess config file inside public folder ...

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
    Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

In direct admin you can change the apache config of Document root for specific domain inside

etc/httpd/conf.d/domians/yourdomian.conf 

change it to ...

DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/domians/yourdomain/public"

Thats it ;) It should work fine ;)

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Answer Checked By - Clifford M. (WPSolving Volunteer)