title: Laravel 5.4 artisan serve htaccess / and Routes::get for existing folders at /public
body: <p>I'm still trying things with Laravel 5.4.
  however running </p>
  
  <pre><code>php artisan server 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is not taking .htaccess file in /public into consideration, no matter what i edit in there it's still not processing it, the artisan serve runs at 127.0.0.1:8000</p>
  
  <p>--- i reached this issue cuz i was looking for one other thing which is:</p>
  
  <p>i wanted to have a route::get for the /images folder which is already located at /public, removing -d from htaccess conditions should solve this normally, thus making apache redirect requests even from folders to index.php, </p>
  
  <p>so while testing locally using php artisan serve i noticed that changes or even clearing the htaccess file does not change the behavior of laravel.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you for your time.</p>
  
  <p><strong>[note]</strong>
  htaccess works if i run laravel from apache, or anything but php artisan serve. so my question is only about the serve command and it's behavior.</p>