xampp apache rewrite not working - apache

Question

I have a folder called crm in htdocs which contains a fresh laravel 5.1
project and i am trying to acess it via http://localhost/crm/
but it just brings the index of page containing the directory contents
instead of the page mapped in my routes.php as
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('panel');
});
i have checked that apache mod_rewrite is enable in httpd.conf
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
then the .htaccess file in crm/public folder contains
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I have also tried to change it to
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
without success.

Answer 1

You need to point Laravel to public directory to make it work. For example, if you've installed Laravel in C:/xampp/htdocs/ directory, you need to use these settings:
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/public"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/public">
Do not edit .htacces inside public folder. Try to change settings and load Laravel website by going to localhost first.
When you've edited Apache config file, you should restart web server.