Apache not directing the routes defined in laravel

I was working with Laravel and when I use the artisan commands to serve, my site works perfectly. But if I open my site through the virtual host in my apache then the basic routes in the PHP application gives me a not found error. I tried solving this by enabling the rewrite mod which was already enabled. I think that my site still should work since it is working when I use the artisan way of development. What may be the problem? Also is the directory tag/initiative necessary for virtual host creation?

P.S. My /var/www contains symlink of the actual folder where I develop using artisan

Below is my .conf file

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName parkinghost
ServerAlias www.parkinghost.com
ServerAlias *.parkinghost.com
ServerAdmin info@parkinghost.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/parkingLaravel/public
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

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