Laravel page not found - laravel

Question

When I open the site with the server.php file, my index page is displayed (index.blade.php), and the link on that page to the list page (list.blade.php) opens successfully. I encountered issues with it recognising my javascript files when I access via server.php? However if I open the public folder it puts me at my index page and javascript files are recognised...
When I open the public folder, and I click the list link I get "Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found."
web.php
Route::get('/', function () {return view('index');});
Route::get('list', 'IngredientsController#display');
IngredientsController
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Ingredient;
class IngredientsController extends Controller
{
/* Displays list of ingredients in db */
public function display()
{
$ingredients = Ingredient::all();
return view('list', compact('ingredients'));
}
}
ingredient.php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Ingredient extends Model
{
}
link on index page to list page: List url
htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

Laravel doesn’t use the root for including the files. So yes your IDEA see your files includes correctly but laravel it doesn’t.
See this post answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/28915577/5334073
Laravel uses the public folder as the ‘root’ folder. That’s just how Laravel works. To call that root you should use the URL::assets function as explain the the answer from the post I gave you.

Answer 2

Above RewriteEngine On I put Options +FollowSymLinks and above RewriteRule ^ index.php [L] I added RewriteBase /nameoflaravelproject/public/
I added these two lines of code and it works. Sorry I dont really understand this so if someone can explain to provide a better resource for other users then thats great.