Laravel with Wordpress blog (with WP API) - wordpress

Question

My progect structure
/root_dir
/app
/bootstrap
...
/public
index.php
.htaccess
/wp #wordpress installation here
/wp-admin
/wp-content
/wp-includes
index.php
.htaccess
...
So what I want to acomplish is to have Laravel project with views, API etc
And I need wordpress only for one route domain.com/blog where I'll have separate default WP blog that doesn't integrate or interact with my Laravel app in any way
My /public/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(blog) #ADDED ONLY THIS MAGIC LINE
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>
And my /public/blog/.htaccess is WP default
And it works like a charm!
My lara routes are fine... API routes - good... WP blog - great...
BUT
Now I want to call WP API, e.g. domain.com/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
And all I see is Laravel's "NOT FOUND" page
Please help!
I have a strong feeling it can be solved with .htacess 'magic' but unfortunately I'm noob in that...
P.S. Found a similar question here Laravel project next to Wordpress project (in public_html folder)
But I need vice versa solution

Answer 1

you can proxy pass the address http://example.com/blog to some other address,
for example using nginx :
server {
listen 80;
server_name blog.example.com;
location / {
root /var/www/wordpress;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location / {
root /var/www/laravel;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /blog/ {
proxy_pass http://blog.example.com/;
}
}
This is a simple and also clean way, and also you don't need to change even one line of code to have laravel and wordpress aside each other.

Answer 2

Holy cow!
The solution was to navigate to dashboard/settings/permalinks and change option from 'plain' to any other!
Found the answer here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rest-api-in-wp-4-7/#post-8620246
You need to be using pretty permalinks to access /wp-json/. If you’re not, you can instead use ?rest_route=/ to get the index and ?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts (e.g.) for specific routes.