For this recipe, we just need a fresh installation of Laravel and everything running on a properly configured Apache server.

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

This simple bit of code will take anything we add in the URL and direct it to the public directory. That way, we don't need to manually type in /public.

If we decide to move this application to a production environment, this is not the best way to accomplish the task. In that case, we would just move our files outside the web root and make /public our root directory.