mod_rewrite enabled?

As above you need to make sure you have mod_rewrite enabled on your web server.

Check out the public/.htaccess file.

Using windows 8 and bitnani xampp control panel v3.2.1. It worked automatically like magic. Awesome!

It is enabled but still nothing :(

public/.htaccess

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

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /laravel/public/ 
    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

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

Anyone?

Check that you have "AllowOverride" specified in apache config. Something like this:

<Directory /var/www/public>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

It's default "AllowOverride None" which effectively stops your .htaccess files from working.