How to get to work routing in laravel 5?

Hello!

The whole day I toiled with the installation of Laravel 5. Was not able to solve the problem.

Install Laravel:

composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist

OK! Try to go to /laravel

You don't have permission to access /laravel/ on this server.

Do .htaccess in root directory location so he tossed into the public folder:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</ifmodule>

OK! Now when entering /laravel everything is OK.

Initially there have already harvested controllers, for example WelcomeController.php

Prescribed route:
Route::get('/', 'WelcomeController@index');

Try to go to /laravel
And nothing happens, just blank white screen. And it should seem greeting Laravel 5.
I tried to do your controllers, just as it turns out, I do not understand what the problem is.

.htaccess in the public directory location is:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>
 <ifmodule mod_negotiation.c>
 Options-MultiViews
</ifmodule>

 RewriteEngine On

 # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
 RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

 # Handle Front Controller...
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</ifmodule>

I would be grateful for any help!