title: Laravel 5.2 - All CSS and JS files in public are empty
body: <p>I run a local installation of xampp on which a laravel 5.2 app is running. I am trying to include css and js files from the public directory, but none of the content of these files is being loaded.</p>
  
  <p>Laravel finds the files, they are just always empty.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to clear the browser cache and the Laravel cache, but neither worked. I have referenced the files in the following ways:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="{{ asset('js/all.js') }}"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OR</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="/js/all.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In both cases the files are loaded, but does not contain anything.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried generating the files through elixir or simply putting them directly in the folder, but still the same result.</p>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated.</p>