php - FollowSymLinks not working with laravel 8

Hello, I am quite new to Linux (ElementaryOS), and in short I am working on Laravel(8) and I have a problem with my routes, while I never had this problem on Windows. I think it's a problem of configuration of Laravel or of my Apache but no way to understand clearly. I reassure you, I ask after having searched well but I find the answers very abstract and none of them help me.

If I understand correctly it could be that my apache server does not have symlinks enabled, but I do not see how to enable them in the configuration file: "apache2.conf" I have a mention of "FollowSymLinks" but despite my research nothing works.

Here is the passage in question:

# Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does
# not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share and /var/www.
# The former is used by web applications packaged in Debian,
# the latter may be used for local directories served by the web server. If
# your system is serving content from a sub-directory in /srv you must allow
# access here, or in any related virtual host.
<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

#<Directory /srv/>
#   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
#   AllowOverride None
#   Require all granted
#</Directory>


# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for additional configuration directives.  See also the AllowOverride
# directive.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
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So I modified a few parts but nothing helped.

Do you have any answers? Thank you.

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