title: How to include CSS in laravel 5 running with artisan?
body: <p>I am new to Laravel and am trying to get the css in the public directory to load. The page loads no problem but the CSS gives me a 404 error in firebug:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - http://127.0.0.1:8000/css/main.css"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wrote this in the blade template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href="{{ asset('/css/main.css') }}" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which outputs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/css/main.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which seems correct.</p>
  
  <p>The site is run with php artisan serve. Any suggestions? Thanks!</p>