add background image in laravel 5

I am trying to add a background image for my website in Laravel 5.

I've used this in my css file.

html {
        background-image: url("images/background.jpg");
    }

the image is in the public folder of my Laravel project folder. I tried all the paths but it just doesn't load.

I keep getting this error:

http://ift.tt/2i5JAVt 404 (Not Found)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

via Chebli Mohamed