Follow symlinks inside WordPress directory? – CPanel

I’m working with a website built on WordPress, it’s a fairly standard setup in cPanel. I’ve developed new features for the website in Laravel. I now need to view the Laravel public directory to an accessible web address.

I’ve tried symlinking the public Laravel directory to a directory inside public_html (where WordPress is).

I’m getting a WP 404 error, rather than the symlinked folder (Laravel public).

/home/user/public_html/ (WordPress DIR)
/home/user/repositories/laravel-app/public (Laravel public)

I then ran:

ln -s /home/user/repositories/laravel-app/public/ /home/user/public_html/book-online

I was hopeful that when going to domain.com/book-online it would load the Laravel app but it doesn’t appear to be the case.

Update

I’ve managed to move a little further, I’ve realised the directory is definitely being resolved, I can access assets, just not index.php. For example. I can go to URL:

domain.com/book-online/css/style.css

and it will load the Laravel stylesheet

domain.com/book-online/index.php

gives me WordPress 404.

This is my .htaccess in public Laravel folder.

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
            Options -MultiViews -Indexes
        </IfModule>

        RewriteEngine On

        # Handle Authorization Header
        RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
        RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

        # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
        RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

        # Handle Front Controller...
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^ /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>