Laravel 5.2 site on localhost/Wamp - laravel-5

Question

I am trying to learn Laravel.
I created a project on c:/sites where I develop all my sites. I called it larabasic.dev
I cannot open the site in my browser, it keeps switching to www.larabasic.dev and tells me server not found.
I set up a virtual host like I did to all my other sites that works well.
I tried:
1. Changing server.php to index.php and copied the public/htaccess file to the root folder
2. Going to http://larabasic.dev/public
3. Going to http://larabasic.dev/public/index.php
4. Changing vhosts file to:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName larabasic.dev
ServerAlias larabasic.dev
DocumentRoot "c:/sites/larabasic.dev/public"
<directory "c:/sites/larabasic.dev/public">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
Instead of:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName larabasic.dev
ServerAlias larabasic.dev
DocumentRoot "c:/sites/larabasic.dev"
<directory "c:/sites/larabasic.dev">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
My hosts file has these 2 entries:
127.0.0.1 larabasic.dev And
::1 larabasic.dev
Nothing helps. Again, any other sites I have developed with plain php work fine.
What am I missing?
Thank you

Answer 1

I've encountered the same problem and I've fixed this by giving 127.0.0.2 to my laravel application.
First, in the hosts file, you need to redirect larabasic.dev to 127.0.0.2:
127.0.0.2 larabasic.dev
Second, you need to bind the virtual host to that IP:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/sites/larabasic.dev/public"
ServerAdmin admin#localhost
ServerName larabasic.dev
ServerAlias www.larabasic.dev
<Directory "C:/sites/larabasic.dev/public">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Require local
# if you want access from other pc's on your local network
#Require ip 192.168.1
# Only if you want the world to see your site
#Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
This is my working configuration on my local machine.