Laravel is one of the highly used, open-source modern web application frameworks to designs customized web applications quickly and easily. Developers prefer Laravel over to other frameworks because of the performance, features, scalability it offers, and on the other hand, WordPress is one of the most popular open source content management applications to develop Blog, Forum, and news feed, because of it vertical features and available plugin bank.
So today we thought why not get our hands dirty with this two together, and help our readers to give good head-start. In this series, we will be explaining how to install WordPress inside a Laravel application and get the WordPress post into Laravel.
Assuming we have a Laravel website running on example.com and its physical path is /public_html/. Now we want to create a Blog using WordPress as example.com/blog/, so we need to install WordPress in /public_html/blog/. Upload all the WordPress files in /blog/ directory. Now we have have edit the .htaccess of both the application so that Laravel should escep blog request for WordPress to process it.
.htaccess for Laravel
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(blog) #<-- Add this line
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder…
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller…
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>.htaccess for WordPress
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/ #<- this line is modified.
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L] #<- this line is modified.
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Now we can directly access example.com/blog/wp-admin/ to install WordPress and set the permalink structure to Post name or any other beautiful URL structure.
In Next tutorial we'll be learning as how to access WordPress post in Laravel.
