title: Laravel 4 - public directory being treated as a route - image not showing
body: <p>I have this problem with Laravel 4's view. The code in view.blade.php is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ HTML::image("public/images/storage/$user_upload-&gt;image.jpg") }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which yields</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://dev.local/public/images/storage/1_thy9WFfBw.jpg
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That is the correct image location, yet as being accessed by the framework, it turns out to be not accessible (i.e. HttpNotFound exception thrown). See screenshot: <a href="http://imgur.com/kKLu30L" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/kKLu30L</a></p>
  
  <p>I think the framework somehow treats this URL as a route resource rather than a public asset.</p>
  
  <p>Is there anyway I could work this out?</p>