title: In Laravel 5.6, how do I create relative links?
body: <p>I'm new to Laravel (using 5.6) and can't get my links to work.</p>
  
  <p>My directory structure is: <strong>resources/views/pages/samples</strong></p>
  
  <p>In the <strong>samples</strong> directory, I have 10 blade files I want to link to (named "sample1.blade.php", etc.). I have a "master" links page in the <strong>pages</strong> directory (one level up from <strong>samples</strong>).</p>
  
  <p>I've tried the following but can't get any of them to work correctly...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="/sample1"&gt;Sample 1&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="/samples/sample1"&gt;Sample 1&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="{{ url('/samples/sample1') }}"&gt;Sample 1&lt;/a&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://site.test/views/pages/samples/sample1"&gt;Sample 1&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...and a few other variations.</p>
  
  <p>I've also tried adding a <strong>base</strong> tag to the HTML header but that doesn't help.
  Every time I click a link, it says "Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found."</p>
  
  <p>What am I missing?</p>