laravel-5

Installation 43
• Cache
• Database
• Session
Once Laravel is installed, you should also configure your local environment.
Pretty URLs
Apache
The framework ships with a public/.htaccess file that is used to allow URLs without index.php.
If you use Apache to serve your Laravel application, be sure to enable the mod_rewrite module.
If the .htaccess file that ships with Laravel does not work with your Apache installation, try this
one:
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1 Options +FollowSymLinks
2 RewriteEngine On
3
4 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
5 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
6 RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
Nginx
On Nginx, the following directive in your site configuration will allow “pretty” URLs:
.
1 location / {
2 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
3 }
Of course, when using Homestead, pretty URLs will be configured automatically.
Environment Configuration
It is often helpful to have different configuration values based on the environment the application is
running in. For example, you may wish to use a different cache driver locally than you do on your
production server. It’s easy using environment based configuration.
To make this a cinch, Laravel utilizes the DotEnv³² PHP library by Vance Lucas. In a fresh Laravel
installation, the root directory of your application will contain a .env.example file. If you install
³²https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv