Solve it by running following lines: chmod -R 755 /path/to/your/laravel/directory chmod -R o+w /path/to/your/laravel/directory And/or maybe: sudo chown -R www-data:user /path/to/your/laravel/directory

.htaccess directions are correct, mod_rewrite is enabled but still you are getting 404 Not Found errors… You need to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. Modified section in the file: <Directory /home/user/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

If your CSS or JS files don’t seem to load or you get 403 Forbidden or Permissions denied, all you need to do is to run following on terminal: sudo chmod -R 755 /path/to/your/laravel/directory

To get base URL of your website to generate links to your content or assets do following: Set $url in app/config/app.php to your base URL: 1'url' => 'http://localhost/example', Use it everywhere with URL::to(), for example: 1echo URL::to('assets/css/general.css'); 2/* outputs http://localhost/example/assets/css/general.css */

Move all content of (files in) public/ folder one level above (to the base) Fix paths in index.php: 1require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php'; 2$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php'; Fix path in bootstrap/paths.php: 1'public' => __DIR__.'/..', Done Source