Laravel routes do not work at all - php

Question

My laravel routes are not working at all. I tried something like this:
Route::get('welcome', function () {
return View::make('welcome');
});
Accessing it with localhost/project/project/public/welcome works fine. I have tried it in many ways but seems like routes aren't working since localhost/project/welcome show me 404 error. I know there is simillar topic but there is no answer for me. Could somebody help me out please?
My htaccess file looks like this (I have never touched it):
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Answer 1

You need to edit your HTTP server to have the document root as project/project/public/
For example in Apache you can do something like that:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/project/project/public/
And in Nginx it will like that:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/project/project/public/;

Answer 2

You have said that you can access your laravel app throught
localhost/project/project/public/welcome. This is because this path is your starting root path, from where you start your application.
Example that will allow you to access new route
Route::get('other_route', function () {
return View::make('welcome');;
});
This code can be accessed, if you will type localhost/project/project/public/other_route into your browser
localhost/project/welcome won't work because your application is deeper than this path.
You should setup virutal host for your application so that your path could be myapp.local/welcome
myapp.local/other_route
Or access your application, assuming that your start point is http://localhost/project/project/public/