hosting a laravel 5.1 application in live server

I have installed laravel 5.1 in my local system and developed an application. Now i have to host it in live server. The live server we have is our own and have many applications running in it. I have just placed the laravel folder in a path now(Nothing else). Its not working as expected.( I read in some answers that we have to copy public folder to server's public folder and rest to a folder, is it so? Do i have to install composer and follow laravel installation process there also?) Can anyone please explain what and all i have to do to make it work there? Thank You!

via Chebli Mohamed