title: setting up laravel redirects to xampp
body: <p>Hi I'm setting up Lavarel using a book called Laravel Starter by Shawn McCool (Packt Publishing), I've cloned the respiratory via github and have got as far as configuring my hosts file and setting up my virtual hosts. As below:</p>
  
  <pre><code>127.0.0.1 laravel.dev
  
  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
  ServerName laravel.dev
  DocumentRoot C:/xampp/htdocs/laravel/public
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However if I visit the link <a href="http://laravel.dev" rel="nofollow">http://laravel.dev</a> I am redirected to the XAMPP page and I should be expecting the laravel splash page. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas of what I have done wrong? The document root is pointing to the correct direction as it is installed onto my localhost.</p>
  
  <p>Greatly appreciate any help.</p>