Laravel installation guide - http://blog.iwader.co.uk/how-to-install-laravel-4-the-right-way

index.php

<?php
/* Redacted */

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader
| for our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll require it
| into the script here so that we do not have to worry about the
| loading of any our classes "manually". Feels great to relax.
|
*/

require __DIR__.'/../private/laravel-install/bootstrap/autoload.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let's turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight these users.
|
*/

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../private/laravel-install/bootstrap/start.php';

/* Redacted */

nginx.vhost

location / {
    index   index.php;

    if ( !-f $request_filename )
    {
      rewrite ^ /index.php last;
      break;
    }
}

paths.php

<?php

return array(

        /* Redacted */
        
        /*
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        | Public Path
        |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
        |
        | The public path contains the assets for your web application, such as
        | your JavaScript and CSS files, and also contains the primary entry
        | point for web requests into these applications from the outside.
        |
        */

        'public' => __DIR__.'/../../../web',

        /* Redacted */

);