api routes not working on live server

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Change the folder Structure It helps most of the time

tarikwaleed

2 years ago

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@vibe what folder structure to change?

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Can you show one of the methods that fails? And the route

If you have a firstOrFail without exception handling it could give you issues

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I think it is a configuration issue, if you have deployed laravel on apache before, please advice on how api routes can be directed to routes/api.php instead of web.php becasue that's what i think is the cause

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Which laravel version are you using? You can just check your RouterServiceProvider. It should have the api route handler

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it is deployed on a vps server, an ubuntu 18.04 server running apache and php, how do I change the folder structure???

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Sir @sinnbeck the thing i that it works properly as intended on localhost, when I run php artisan serve and open localhost:8000/api/route but it shows page not found error handler when I open www.projectx.com/api/route using postman

it's running Laravel 5.8

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I assume that means that web routes work on the server? Can you run php artisan route:list on the server? Does it list the api routes?

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yes web routes runs on server. but api routes doesn't work

but on localhost when I serve using php artisan serve, both works properly

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Did you run php artisan route:list to check if they are listen?

If they are, can you post one of those that does not work?

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the route:list command doesn't work on my project including route:cache because a lot of the project codebase doesn't follow some standard laravel conventions

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That could make it quite hard for us to debug here sadly.

Can you try posting your api.php file? Or at least some of it. Is there auth of some kind on all routes? If not can you open the page in a regular browser?

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but the web routes runs properly on the server, on the api routes doesn't work, both of them works on the localhost. do you think it has got to do with .htaccess??? or apache configuration probably???

In my mind I'm thinking what's the correct way to configure apache rewrite base??? do you think this might be the cause??? what exactly could be wrong???

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on some routes in the api the is auth:api middleware but the routes I'm visiting has no auth.

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Sadly I use nginx, but I have never run into issues where only a special url path didn't work. I don't see any way you could make that happen. Also I suppose your .htaccess is the default one? https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/installation#web-server-configuration

Just another thought. You don't by any chance have a folder called api in the /public directory?

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<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Twilio\Rest\Client;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use \App\Jobs\SendCashCodeSMS;


/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| API Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register API routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| is assigned the "api" middleware group. Enjoy building your API!
|
*/

/* Route::middleware('auth:api')
->get('/user', function(Request $request) {
return $request->user();
}); */
    Route::group(['prefix' => 'ussd'], function(){
            Route::post('cashurban', 'USSDController@cashurban');
            Route::get('transferpay', 'USSDController@transferpay');
            Route::get('cashout', 'USSDController@cashout');
            Route::get('ussdtransaction', 'USSDController@ussdtransaction');
            Route::get('validatecharge', 'USSDController@validateCharge');
            Route::post('/rave/callback', 'flutterwaveController@callback')->name('callback');
    });

    Route::group(['prefix' => 'pos'], function(){

        Route::post('register-agent', 'POSController@MerchantOnboarding')->name('merchant_onboarding');
        Route::post('agent-terminal', 'POSController@POSterminal')->name('pos_terminal');
        Route::post('transaction/callback', 'POSController@CgateCallback')->name('pos_callback');
    });

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yes, my .htaccess is the default htaccess, and I don't have any folder api in the public/ directory

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You have a lot of unused use statements in the file. Try removing them. (all of them)

Did you remember to run composer install on the server?