Problems with middleware and request to files

Hi people,

I have the following route

Route::middleware('auth')
    ->get('files/{any}', [MediaController::class, 'showFile'])
    ->where('any', '.*');

When trying to access this url

http://mypage.com/files/books/covers/book-124343-thum.jpg

I got redirected to the index and logged out of the app, it seems the url doesn't reach the controller. I'm using valet on my local environment and there works great, the problem comes when the site is deploy to a server on cloudways.