无法在浏览器上运行Laravel 5项目

I am very new to laravel, I am using windows 7 OS. I have a PHP website made on laravel 5 which I want to run on my browser. I have gone through the videos and the various website on "How to run laravel 5 project on browser" but unfortunately I failed to run my project on the browser. I am using XAMPP and below is my Virtual Hosts file of apache. My localhost port is 7000.

<VirtualHost *:7000>

    DocumentRoot "C:\xampp2\htdocs\basicwebsite\public"
    ServerName basicwebsite.com

</VirtualHost>

And inside the hosts file within the system32 folder I have put the following line

127.0.0.1   basicwebsite.com

When I am trying to run it on my browser it gives me an error

"This site can’t be reached
basciwebsite.com refused to connect."

Any help is welcome.

check below points -

1.) .env file should have APP_KEY 2.) have you created "storage/views" , "storage/cache"

When I'm developing locally with Laravel, I simply execute php artisan serve on the terminal. I can then run it on http://localhost:8000

Try This:

<VirtualHost *:7000>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp2/htdocs/basicwebsite/public"
    ServerName basicwebsite.com
    <Directory "C:/xampp2/htdocs/basicwebsite">
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Try using something other than basicwebsite.com in the servername, Maybe use basicwebsite.local

Explanation: .com is widely used therefore using something different should do the trick, try http://nameofwebsite.local (doesn't have to be .local, can be anything really but not .com or .net for example)