Created a project in laravel but I can't access a welcome page

Question

I installed Laravel (in W10/Wamp3.3/PHP5.6) using Composer and created a new project with the following command:

laravel new my_project

Project doesn't have a welcome page, opens file-list directly. So I decided to try my chance on creating a new controller and create a route.

php artisan make:controller Hello

And my route in routes/web

Route::get('/hello', 'HelloController@index');

I also cleared the route cache:

php artisan route:clear

Created the controller with no methods. myproject/hello shows nothing.

What am I missing? File permissions or wamp based problem?

There's a question related with this but it's more like a server problem.

Are you pointing your webserver to your laravel project's `/public` directory? — Cory Fail, Jul 11 '18 at 20:45
first , you can run `php artisan make:controller HelloController` instead of `php artisan make:controller Hello` — Alihossein shahabi, Jul 11 '18 at 20:48
You should have PHP 7 or greater if not running Homestead Try running 'php artisan serve' in CMD and report back. — Polaris, Jul 11 '18 at 20:49
Hello Polaris, thanks for artisan serve, application started. I installed latest version of wamp today. May be it has some caching problem. I flushed the cache but nothing worked. — tolga, Jul 11 '18 at 20:58
If you say that your controller has no methods, what might return `view` fro your welcome than? Your route doesn't have `Closure`. — Tarasovych, Jul 11 '18 at 21:24
When you say "opens file-list directly", what directory does it open? The public dir, or the root dir? — Mav, Jul 12 '18 at 03:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 20:57

Few causes for this that I've run into. Most likely one is going to be the server pointing to the incorrect directory. What I would do to test is run php artisan serve from the root of the project. This will open up a server pointing to public directory. If this functions correctly then you have confirmation.

Created a project in laravel but I can't access a welcome page

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