title: Assets in the public directory not showing in Laravel 5
body: <p>I am having issues with assets in the <em>/public</em> directory in Laravel 5.4 and Laravel 5.5.</p>
  
  <p>On a fresh install of Laravel, nothing in the public directory will work without <em>/public</em> in the URL.</p>
  
  <p>When I run <code>php artisan make:auth</code>, the views that are created are supposed to be perfect, right? Well, what I get is an unstyled page which only looks pretty when I use the DOM inspector to add <em>/public</em> so that I end up with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href="http://localhost/l5.4/public/css/app.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where can I change the setting so that I don't have to add <em>/public</em> in the views each time I want to link to an asset?</p>