If you're asking for help getting Laravel to work with Xampp, like in the meantime while you work on Homestead (as I am having to do), I found this tutorial extremely straightforward and helpful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNn_tS2KpcY

If you delve Laravel deeper, consider using Laragon, introduced here:

http://laravel.io/forum/12-15-2014-introduce-laragon-the-easiest-software-to-simplify-laravel-installation-and-development-for-windows-users

Laragon comes natural with Laravel on Windows. Just about 1 minute installation, you'll have a LAMP server bundles with composer, cmder, memcached, redis. If you work with many Laravel project in the future, you'll find Laragon's auto create virtual host is very helpful. For example, put a folder name "laravel" to your Document Root, Laragon will generate http://laravel.dev for you For more details: http://laragon.org/auto-create-virtual-hosts