downloaded index.php instead of load the app

[reregin]

hi, i'm a total beginner and i want to deploy my laravel app on vercel. i was planning to connect it to Oracle ATP to use it as the database. but i'm totally stuck on the vercel. when i open the website, it downloaded the index.php instead of load the app.

this is how my project looks like

project
├── .vercel
│   ├── ...
├── .vercelignore
├── api
│   └── index.php
...
├── public
│   ├── .htaccess
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── index.php
│   └── robots.txt
...
├── vercel.json
└── vite.config.js

i already included functions and routes on my vercel.json like this:

"functions": {
        "api/*.php": {
            "runtime": "[email protected]"
        }
    },
    "routes": [
        {
          "src": "/(.*)",
          "dest": "/api/index.php"
        }
    ],

and i point the /api/index.php to my original index.php like this:

<?php

// Forward Vercel requests to normal index.php
require __DIR__ . '/../public/index.php';

but it just downloaded the /api/index.php instead. do anyone has any ideas what happened? and are they more informations that i could give to help?

[DmitryAdam]

it's seems like the htaccess issue,
have you tried to remove the htaccess firest?

[reregin]

what do you mean by htaccess firest?

[solamichealolawale]

I have this same issue for vanilla PHP with no build or framework. I don't know what to do again. In my case, I don't have any .htaccess file

vercel.json

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

api/index.php

<?php

// Forward Vercel requests to normal index.php
require __DIR__ . '../index.php';

Here is my project structure

project
└── api
     └── index.php
└── css
└── fonts
└── images
└── js
└── index.php
└── other_php_pages.php
└── vercel.json

[f3l1x]

@solamichealolawale Can you show me repository and public vercel URL?

[solamichealolawale]

@f3l1x sure.

Repo:https://github.com/solamichealolawale/payit
URL: https://payit-chi.vercel.app/

[solamichealolawale]

@f3l1x sure.

Repo:https://github.com/solamichealolawale/payit URL: https://payit-chi.vercel.app/

@f3l1x Can you view this?

[f3l1x]

I was fixing other bug, now it's time for your app. :-)

[moghwan]

bump, bug still occurring with Laravel and PHP runtimes 0.7.0 & 0.6.1

[moghwan]

fixed on my end, at vercel level I've set output directory value to api .

[solamichealolawale]

I was fixing other bug, now it's time for your app. :-)

@f3l1x any update on this?

[lukman-fun]

i have the same face

[mrezayusufy]

Everything is ok. You just need to deploy it to production.
vercel --prod

[sekedus]

Move all .php files to /api and update vercel.json:

vercel.json

{
  "functions": {
    "api/*.php": {
      "runtime": "[email protected]"
    }
  },
  "rewrites": [
    { "source": "/api/(.*)", "destination": "/api/$1" }
  ]
}

project structure:

project
└── api
     └── index.php
     └── other_php_pages.php
└── css
└── fonts
└── images
└── js
└── vercel.json

[f3l1x]

Hi, I am not facing that issue anymore. Do you guys?

[tao]

I think this happened to me when the build outputDirectory was set to . instead of public