Why is laravel 5 homepage not working?

Question

Laravel

After installation, not the main page opens, but a list of directories. I am using xampp. What could be the problem?

Answer 1

The root directory of the host should be ./public/

Answer 2

I am using xampp. What could be the problem?

Apache for development in PHP has not been needed for three years (exactly since March 1, by the way)
PHP has a built-in web server.
You don't need to complicate things.
Just type php artisan serve in the project directory.

Answer 3

Obviously, DOCUMENT_ROOT is incorrectly set in the Apache config, because this directory does not even have index.php ... Maybe that's why? Or if the file is different by default, then you need to add it there, to the Apache config