After much faffing about I got laravel to work with XAMPP. However, I can\'t seem to access directories in the htdocs folder via localhost now. Attempt to access a file retu
You're having problem because the object really doesn't exist in your htdocs directory. You don't have to append xampp after localhost or 127.0.0.1 because xampp will treat it as an object or a folder under htdocs.
if you want to access your blog, make sure you have a blog folder under htdocs and put in your URL localhost/blog