Laravel Routes not working, Apache configuration only allows for public/index.php/route

Two most common causes of this behavior are:

1. mod_rewrite not enabled

   sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

2. AllowOverride is set to None, set it to All, assuming Apache2.4

   sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

search for <Directory /var/www/> and change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All, then save the file and restart apache

Do you have mod_rewrite installed and enabled on apache? Try to remove the if lines ( and ) and see if it throws an error when you try to load the website. If it does, run sudo a2enmod rewrite and restart apache.

This is the .htaccess I have on my public/ directory:

<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]
</IfModule>

Changing AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload did help.