I just installed laravel and need some clues regarding "development server" and how I can run a project.
I connected to laravel development center which opened port 8000 on localhost. So I access my project at
localhost:8000
It wouldn't work if I typed in localhost/thelaravelproject/somepage , as I do with other php projects during development.
After closing the command line tool, localhost:8000 became inactive, so I opened the command line again, entered the path, and then
php artisan serve
and then it was running again. Does this mean that I have to do this every time?
On this page laravel.com/docs/4.2/quick it says something about "Local Development Environment" and it mentions Laravel Homestead. Is this something that is needed to run laravel using localhost the way I normally work with php?
I follow tutorials, but it's strange how they leave out very important details.
I found out that localhost works the normal way, I just have to add the 'public' directory.
So if I type in
it shows the 'you have arrived' page.