Laravel New API Not Working - php

Question

I'm trying to learn Laravel (5.3.28) and I'm running into an issue with my very first api route not working. I've followed the Laravel docs and can create a new project and can navigate to the Laravel splash screen indicating it's working. I added the following route to routes/api.php to test if I can consume the end-point, but I get an error:
routes/api.php
Route::get('foo', function () {
return 'Hello World';
});
error
NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:
I have a dedicated CentOS box running XAMPP for my web server. the address to hit the end-point is http://10.0.0.200/test/api/public/foo.
I'm read that my .htaccess file should be edited, but the few examples I found match what I already have, so I'm a little lost on what to do.
Here is the output for php artisan route:list:
+--------+----------+----------+------+---------+--------------+
| Domain | Method | URI | Name | Action | Middleware |
+--------+----------+----------+------+---------+--------------+
| | GET|HEAD | / | | Closure | web |
| | GET|HEAD | api/foo | | Closure | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/user | | Closure | api,auth:api |
+--------+----------+----------+------+---------+--------------+

Answer 1

10.0.0.200/test/api/public is the root URL I assume. If yes, then you need to hit 10.0.0.200/test/api/public/api/foo
I think that your project lies in the folder test/api, what you need is to reconfigure apache\nginx to route all requests going to 10.0.0.200/test/ , to start going to {webser root}/test/api/public . This is done in web server configuration files

Answer 2

Laravel uses the artisan commands to do several development tasks, such as running a built-in web server. You can do this by opening a new terminal inside the root directory of your project (where the artisan script is located) and run the following command :
php artisan serve
This should notice you with the URL of the built-in web server. You can then access it through your web browser. Generally, http://localhost:8000
This way, you'll be able to access your route which heads to http://localhost:8000/foo and in which you should find the page that says Hello world as your return in your closure.