Laravel Running on Bitnami WAMP Problem Running It

I have successfully installed bitnami WAMP on my Windows 7 machine. All went well, I got the Apache Web server and MySQL Database servers running and I am able to run some (non-Laravel) php web sites. Now I wanted to try to use Laravel. I selected Laravel when I did the bitnami install. I see laravel in the frameworks folder. I see the public folder where the sample app is located. I followed the laravel activation instructions and everything looks correct. However, when I try to get the sample page I keep getting a 404 error. I've tried http://localhost/laravel , http://localhost/laravel/public and an assortment of other things and I never get the welcome page that indicates laravel is working correctly. I've looked at the various config files that were automatically set up on the initial install and it all looks fine according to the documentation I found. I'm new to this, is there something else that needs to be running besides the Apache server?? I must be missing something. I've been tinkering with this for a few hours and just don't see it. Thank you in advance for any help.