title: Combine Laravel 5 with non-laravel pages
body: <p>I am building an application in Laravel which will be in construction for some time. In the meantime, I have 2 "conventional" websites, one static html and one php, which I'd like to include in my source control and make publicly accessible as I build the laravel application. </p>
  
  <p>I have my public folder set up like this : </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>public/website1/many folders and files </p>
    
    <p>public/website2/many folders and files </p>
    
    <p>public/index.php </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I would like to route / redirect users in the following way (lets use my development environment "localhost" as the domain): </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>localhost/laravelapp/ -> index.php </p>
    
    <p>localhost/website1/ -> website1/index.html </p>
    
    <p>localhost/website2/ -> website2/index.php </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This way I can maintain all my code within a single project / source control / server. </p>
  
  <p>But how do I route this!? </p>
  
  <p>I have tried: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::get('/website1', function() {
    return File::get(public_path() . '/website1/index.html');
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but this just returns a static file with no relative links to the css folder or other linked files. How can I redirect the user properly to the correct area? Rebuilding the existing sites in Laravel framework is not an option. Thanks. </p>