How to correctly deploy a Laravel application on XAMPP Apache?

I am pretty new in Laravel and I am finding the following problem.

I have put my application in this folder:

C:\xampp\htdocs\HotelRegistration\

Starting it via the statment:

php artisan serve

it is correctly started here: http://127.0.0.1:8000

For some reason I need to run it with XAMPP Apache server instead the one provided by php artisan serve

So I started Apache from XAMPP but trying to open:

http://ift.tt/2lLg1g7

I obtain a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED error message.

Why? What is wrong? What am I missing?

Tnx

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