Running Laravel 5 in a subdirectory (instead of a subdomain or top-level domain) is easy but there's one gotcha.
Step 1: Apache Config
Make sure to alias your subdirectory to the public directory of your Laravel project.
Let's say my site is going to be at http://mydomain.com/laravel-site. My Apache config would look like this:
Alias /laravel-site /path/to/laravel/public
<Directory /path/to/laravel/public>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Step 2: Laravel .htaccess
file
This was that part I got stuck on. The /
route was fine but all other routes threw an Internal Server Error (which turned out to be a redirect loop).
To fix this, add the following to your public/.htaccess
file:
RewriteBase /laravel-site