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If clean URLs don't work in Laravel 4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
.htaccess directions are correct, mod_rewrite is enabled but still you are getting 404 Not Found errors…
You need to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.
Modified section in the file:
<Directory /home/user/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>