title: Setting the Root to public folder in laravel @Apache2 Server Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
body: <p>I have the following configuration and yet i am not able to access
  Laravel directly.</p>
  <p>in <code>/etc/apache2/sites-available/laravel.conf</code></p>
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
          ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
          DocumentRoot /var/www/html/laravel/public
          &lt;Directory /var/www/html/laravel/public&gt;
                  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                  AllowOverride All
                  Order allow,deny
                  allow from all
          &lt;/Directory&gt;
          ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
          CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>the following appears:</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0DcUK.png" alt="enter image description here" /></p>
  <p>Any help would be highly appreciated.
  Thanks in advance.</p>