I am trying to get a Laravel project running on my localhost. I've download composer and run the following command in my web directory of the localhostand it creates a laravel project for me which I can then navigate through and explore the various files and folders it contains. I can even open up the structure by going to this URL:
composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-test
http://localhost/learning-laravel/ <---- Displays the files in my browser.
My problem is that by default should the public directory not get opened and the user redirected to the home view as this is what it says in the routes.php file
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
When I go to this URL I get an error http://localhost/laravel-test/public/
Woops, looks like something went wrong
Does anyone know why this is happening?
EDIT: set debug to true in the app.php file located in the config folder. Apparently this is my issue:
RuntimeException
OpenSSL extension is required
apache2.4.9\bin\php.ini
extension=php_openssl.dll
php5.5.12\php.ini
extension=php_openssl.dll
I am using WAMP I've ensured that the following extensions are uncommented in my php.ini files.
have you restarted apache since you updated your php.ini files?
EDIT:
If you haven't, try installing openssl from a binary. I believe the php extension is just an adapter. https://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html