Q:

Laravel assets url

I have installed Laravel and began trying to write an app. I made some directories for my assets in the same directory as /app. But when I try to visit an image in my localhost for example:  http://localhost/assets/images/image.png
I've also tried it on: http://localhost/app/assets/images/image.png
I ran into the problem when I was trying to set a background image in a view, and it kept going to 404.
This is what my app looks like under app/
->app
->assets
->commands
->config
->controllers
->database
->lang
->models
->start
->storage
->tests
->views
app.txt
routes.php
filters.php

But I get errors about requests. I have double checked that the url is correct.
Symfony \ Component \ HttpKernel \ Exception \ NotFoundHttpException

A:

You have to put all your assets in app/public folder, and to access them from your views you can use asset() helper method.
Ex. you can retrieve assets/images/image.png in your view as following:
<img src="{{asset('assets/images/image.png')}}">

A:

Besides put all your assets in the public folder, you can use the HTML::image() Method, and only needs an argument which is the path to the image, relative on the public folder, as well:
{{ HTML::image('imgs/picture.jpg') }}

Which generates the follow HTML code:
<img src="http://localhost:8000/imgs/picture.jpg">

The link to other elements of HTML::image() Method: http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/185/generating-an-html-image-element

