php artisan serve给出一个空白页面

Question

My application folder is c:/wamp/www/newapp. When I use php artisan serve from the newapp folder the server starts at port 8000.

Of course I switch off the WAMP server when I do this however I get a blank page! I tried making a test.html in the newapp/public folder and it works if I type localhost:8000/test.html, but it does not go to the landing page!

For your information: when I use WAMP server and type localhost/newapp/public it goes to the landing page, but playing with the routes.php does not work when using WAMP.

My question is, how do I get to the landing page using php artisan serve?

My Laravel version is 4.2.0.

Answer 1

Here are a couple of possible fixes:

• run composer install
• Try to run php -S localhost:8000 -t public/ in the root of your project (not sure if this works on Windows though)

If this doesn't work you can try to use homestead