Laravel 5 not finding css files

I’ve just installed a Laravel 5 project on MAMP and my pages are not finding the css files.

This is the link to my css in my app.blade.php file:

<link href="/css/app.css" rel="stylesheet">

And my .htaccess file has this line:

RewriteBase /laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/

In the config folder my app.php file contains this:

'url' => 'http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/',

But when I open up this page: http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/auth/login and check the developer tools, it is looking for the css file at this location: http://localhost:8888/css/app.css

Just as a side note, if I go to this url: http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/ I get the correct welcome page.

Answer

Use this to add assets like css, javascript, images.. into blade file.

FOR CSS,

<link href="{{ asset('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

OR

<link href="{{ URL::asset('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

FOR JS,

<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ asset('js/custom.js') }}"></script>

OR

 <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ URL::asset('js/custom.js') }}"></script>

FOR IMAGES,

{{ asset('img/photo.jpg'); }}

Here is the DOC

Alternatively, if you pulled the composer package illuminate/html which was come as default in laravel 4.2 then you can use like below, In laravel 5. you have to manually pull the package.

{{ HTML::style('css/style.css') }}

Here is an Example.