title: Cant see or access Laravel's public folder
body: <p>On Fedora 20 I created a folder named <code>test</code> then installed Laravel via <code>composer create-project laravel/laravel</code> into it. It ran successfully and now I try to view it in FireFox in the following URL:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>http://localhost/~username/test/laravel/public/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it throws the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Internal Server Error</strong></p>
    
    <p>The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.</p>
    
    <p>Please contact the server administrator at root@localhost to inform them of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this error.</p>
    
    <p>More information about this error may be available in the server error log.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>If I go to the parent folder, I can see that everything is there except the <code>public</code> folder. However if I <code>ls</code> in the terminal I can see that the folder is right over there. There is no problem with other PHP scripts only with this project. I tried to play with folder permission but no success. Why can't I see the folder in the browser and why does it throws an Error 500 when I try to access it?</p>