Laravel assets url

I have installed Laravel and began trying to write an app. I made some directories for my assets in the same directory as /app. But when I try to visit an image in my localhost for example:

I've also tried it on:

I ran into the problem when I was trying to set a background image in a view, and it kept going to 404.

This is what my app looks like under app/

->app ->assets ->commands ->config ->controllers ->database ->lang ->models ->start ->storage ->tests ->views app.txt routes.php filters.php 

But I get errors about requests. I have double checked that the url is correct.

Symfony \ Component \ HttpKernel \ Exception \ NotFoundHttpException 

3 Answers

You have to put all your assets in app/public folder, and to access them from your views you can use asset() helper method.

Ex. you can retrieve assets/images/image.png in your view as following:

<img src="{{asset('assets/images/image.png')}}">

Besides put all your assets in the public folder, you can use the HTML::image() Method, and only needs an argument which is the path to the image, relative on the public folder, as well:

{{ HTML::image('imgs/picture.jpg') }} 

Which generates the follow HTML code:

<img src=""> 

The link to other elements of HTML::image() Method:

You have to do two steps:

1. Put all your files (css,js,html code, etc.) into the public folder.
2. Use url({{ URL::asset('images/slides/2.jpg') }}) where images/slides/2.jpg is path of your content.

Similarly you can call js, css etc.