"404 Not Found" for newly created Resources using Laravel - mysql

Question

I am trying to create a webpage with Laravel (5.8.35) / MySQL using XAMPP.
After setting up the DB and initializing it with some test data I wanted to create some resources to retreive the data (of students in my case).
The standard Laravel landing page in my case is located at localhost/testlaravel/public. I am trying to access the resource on localhost/testlaravel/public/api/students which results in a 404 | Not Found.
What could the problem be? Thank you in advance
Here are a few code snippets of hopefully all relevant files.
routes\api.php
// List students
Route::get('/students','StudentController#index');
// List single student
Route::get('/student/{id}', 'StudentController#show');
App\Http\Controllers\StudentController
public function index() {
$students = Student::paginate(20);
return StudentResource::collection($students);
}
App\Http\Resources\StudentResource
public function toArray($request) {
return parent::toArray($request);
}
Edit1:
The console output for php artisan route:list is:
+--------+----------+------------------+------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| Domain | Method | URI | Name | Action | Middleware |
+--------+----------+------------------+------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+
| | GET|HEAD | / | | Closure | web |
| | POST | api/student | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#store | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#show | api |
| | PUT | api/student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#update | api |
| | DELETE | api/student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#destroy | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/students | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#index | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/user | | Closure | api,auth:api |
| | POST | student | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#store | web |
| | GET|HEAD | student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#show | web |
| | PUT | student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#update | web |
| | DELETE | student/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#destroy | web |
| | GET|HEAD | students | | App\Http\Controllers\StudentController#index | web |
+--------+----------+------------------+------+------------------------------------------------+--------------+```

Answer 1

You are saying, you want to create a webPage so i think you have to add the Route to routes/web.php file for web pages routes/api.php is for api's
if you are creating api, check if XAMPP is functioning also may be some connection issues
like your ip address