Laravel runs on the "/public/" directory. So you should see it under http://localhost/tasks/public.

If it doesn't run there, or it shows some kind of enrror, may be the .htaccess wrong configuration. By default, Laravel doesn't like to run under a /public/ URI, so just before:

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

in your .htaccess in /public/, add:

# Change the base rewrite
RewriteBase /tasks/public/

BTW, that type of "empty" page it shows to you? Be more specific. Do you get 404? 503?

Thank you for helping me, DarkGhostHunter.,

On http://localhost/tasks/public I get a 500 Internal Server Error .

The .htaccess in /public/ is:

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

    RewriteEngine On

   # Change the base rewrite
   RewriteBase /tasks/public/

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

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

As you can see I added what you told me. I don't undestand this files so maybe I put it in the wrong place. But the .htaccess file was already generated, I didn't create it.

I also tried cloning the quickstart guide from git

git clone https://github.com/laravel/quickstart-basic quickstart

but http://localhost/quickstart/public also failed to load.

check your logs to find out what the 500 error is. Do you have the correct permissions setup ?

Laravel is very easy to install, make sure u:

• install your xampp or wampp correctly
• then install your composer correctly
• then navigate to ur apache directory i.e. user/xampp/htdocs/
• just click on shift right click in the directory, click on open command prompt
• a window will pop up
• enter this: composer create-project laravel/laravel task --prefer-dist
• a folder will be created name 'task' enter it and open the comand prompt again nd write this: composer install
• after the installation is complete
• go to ur browser to check with : localhost/task/public

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lagbox said:

check your logs to find out what the 500 error is. Do you have the correct permissions setup ?

Apache log "says":

[Mon Jan 04 20:28:51.519241 2016] [:error] [pid 20308] [client 127.0.0.1:52534] 
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file "/var/www/html/tasks/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php:87\n
Stack trace:\n
#0 /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/AbstractProcessingHandler.php(37): Monolog\\Handler\\StreamHandler->write(Array)\n
#1 /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(289): Monolog\\Handler\\AbstractProcessingHandler->handle(Array)\n
#2 /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Logger.php(565): Monolog\\Logger->addRecord(400, Object(Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalErrorException), Array)\n
#3 /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Log/Writer.php(202): Monolog\\Logger->error(Object(Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalErrorException), Array)\n
#4 /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Log/Writer.php(113): Illuminate\\Log\\Writer->writeLog('error', Object( in /var/www/html/tasks/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php on line 87

What are the correct permissions?

Ok, I found this. It says that I needed to do:

chmod 755 -R laravel

so now I get to a page where it shows me a label, a text field and a button to Add a Task. When I press this button it sends me to http://localhost/task, not to public/tasks.

Is it really THAT difficult to learn Laravel???? I can't believe this is the way. Even following an official tutorial one can't get anything to work!