How to configure Apache2 with Laravel Backend/React Frontend

Question

I'm attempting to setup a server configuration where React is the frontend and Laravel is the API, but I'm unsure of how to setup Apache2 so that mydomain.com/api will serve Laravel and everything else will serve React

I tried setting up a separate site config file for Laravel at mydomain.com/api being routed to the Laravel public folder but it doesn't work

Any advice is appreciated

Thanks

Zach

Hari Krishna Gaddipati · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01 20:22:12Z

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I had this before and fixed it as below.

I did not create a new configuration file for the second site, just included it as Alias as below.

in your 000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    Alias /api/ /var/www/html/api
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html


    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Alias defines your new site or application.

When you are setting up the Alias, if "/api/" does not work, try /api. either one of them should work.

And make sure, you set your document root configurations in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

answered Mar 1, 2018 at 20:22

Hari Krishna Gaddipati

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2 Comments

Zach Handley Over a year ago

This worked! Thank you so much! Couldn't find it ANYWHERE online

José Lozano Hernández Over a year ago

Thanks, it works, it worked for me using this form "/api" BTW

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