Lumen is the new micro framework from laravel, you can found more info here : Lumen Website.

I ran lumen without homestead, just plain apache. After opening the /public folder i got this error :

Next, i try to run lumen with php artisan serve, and its work 😀

I’am curious, so i dig into the lumen framework bootstraper. If you open public/index.php, it will trigger $app->run(). The app is instance of Laravel\Lumen\Application and you can find the source on vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/src/Application.php.

the run method in turn will call dispatch :

public function dispatch($request = null)
{
    if ($request) {
        $method = $request->getMethod();
        $pathInfo = $request->getPathInfo();
    } else {
        $method = $this->getMethod();
        $pathInfo = $this->getPathInfo();
    }
}

From the code we can infer that if no request object is pass (default is null) then lumen will try to get the path info from its own method. In my case, if we run Lumen from sub directory, the path will be absolute path from your server hostname. Which lead to route not found problem.

My solution for this is to create Symfony request object on public/index.php

<?php
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request as Request;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Create The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| First we need to get an application instance. This creates an instance
| of the application / container and bootstraps the application so it
| is ready to receive HTTP / Console requests from the environment.
|
*/

$app = require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
| through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
| the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
| and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
|
*/
$request = Request::createFromGlobals();

$app->run($request);

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