its called URL rewriting, and laravel comes with this by default i.e. there is a .htaccess file in public/route that redirects everything.. so it could be this is not enabled by default in your apache.

if this is a local one, then you can set this up yourself in httpd-vhosts.conf? (search for setting up a virtual host)

so basically you would do something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin email
    DocumentRoot "/Users/admin/projects/personal/mphm/public"
   DirectoryIndex index.php
   <Directory "/Users/admin/projects/personal/mphm/">
     AllowOverride all
      Require all granted
    </Directory>
    ServerName mphm.localhost.com
    ServerAlias mphm.localhost.com
    ErrorLog "/private/var/log/apache2/mphm-error_log"
    CustomLog "/private/var/log/apache2/mphm-access_log" common
</VirtualHost>