Laravel 5 not finding css files

I've just installed a Laravel 5 project on MAMP and my pages are not finding the css files.

This is the link to my css in my app.blade.php file:

<link href="/css/app.css" rel="stylesheet">

And my .htaccess file has this line:

RewriteBase /laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/

In the config folder my app.php file contains this:

'url' => 'http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/',

But when I open up this page: http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/auth/login and check the developer tools, it is looking for the css file at this location: http://localhost:8888/css/app.css

Just as a side note, if I go to this url: http://localhost:8888/laravel-site/laravel-5-app/public/ I get the correct welcome page.

Use this to add assets like css, javascript, images.. into blade file.

FOR CSS,

<link href="{{ asset('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

<link href="{{ URL::asset('css/app.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" >

FOR JS,

<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ asset('js/custom.js') }}"></script>

 <script type="text/javascript" src="{{ URL::asset('js/custom.js') }}"></script>

FOR IMAGES,

{{ asset('img/photo.jpg'); }}

Here is the DOC

Alternatively, if you pulled the composer package illuminate/html which was come as default in laravel 4.2 then you can use like below, In laravel 5. you have to manually pull the package.

{{ HTML::style('css/style.css') }}

Here is an Example.

In the root path create a .htaccess file with

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public/ 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f



RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 
#RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ public/index.php [L] 
</IfModule>

In public directory create a .htaccess file

<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>

if you have done any changes in public/index.php file correct them with the right path then your site will be live.

what will solve with this?