I'm developing a Laravel project using wamp stack on windows. My project is located in a separate folder like C:\wamp64\www\[project name]. The annoying problem is with url paths in code. I want to handle them in a way that they work both locally and on production environment. For example this an absolute link:
<a href="/posts/tags/{{ $tag }}">
It is intended to navigate user to [project name]/posts/... . In other words I want to get project root with a slash. If this is not possible, what is the correct way of handling paths then (on development and production environment). I'm a little confused with this. Please provide detailed information considering both WAMP and Laravel. And please give information about relative paths, too.
So what I finally did was to use the suggested method by @iCoders plus having APP_URL set in .env file to http://localhost/[project_name]/public. This way url method resolves the correct path provided that your config/app.php contains 'url' => env('APP_URL', 'http://localhost') and you make the URL generator use APP_URL. For more information, check this link: Laravel: Change base URL? To differentiate development and production environments different .env files can be used for each.
You can use url method url method will return base url
<a href="{{url('/posts/tags/'.$tag)}}">edit tag</a>
url()
The url function generates a fully qualified URL to the given path