Auth Session not on web middleware groups?

New to Laravel 5 and it's Middleware. Used Laravel 4 for around 3 years, but haven't touched it in around 6 months.

I've got a new Laravel 5 project which I'm following Jeffrey's Laravel 5 for Beginners Series.

Unfortunately I reached the end of his series so far and I wanted to keep going, lol. So I persisted, using the knowledge I have and the Documentation to include some form of Auth and Social Auth into the current project, so that I can associate Notes and Cards with users - as i'm sure he'll cover in his videos. Just impatient.

Sorry for the rambling preamble..

The problem is that on my / route, and any routes defined within my middleware => web route, I'm able to authenticate, and then see that I am authenticated with Auth::check().

However, upon trying to access a middleware => auth group, as suggested that I should do so from the Documentation, I am simply redirected back to the page I was initially on.

My Routes code is here:

Routes:

// Cards and Notes only for Authenticated Users.
Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function() {
    Route::get('cards', 'CardsController@index');
    Route::get('cards/{card}', 'CardsController@show');

    Route::post('cards/{card}/notes', 'NotesController@store');

    Route::get('notes/{note}/edit', 'NotesController@edit');
    Route::patch('notes/{note}', 'NotesController@update');
});

// Social Auth
Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function() {


    Route::get('/', 'PagesController@home');
    Route::get('about', 'PagesController@about');
    
    Route::auth();

    Route::get('social/{provider?}', 'Auth\AuthController@redirectToProvider');
    Route::get('social/{provider?}/callback', 'Auth\AuthController@handleProviderCallback');
});

AuthController is pretty much stock, with Socialite added in, and I haven't touched the Kernel.php file or any Middleware files for fear of breaking anything.

I read in another post that ['middleware' => 'web','auth'] would fix it - but that created a redirect loop on all pages..

I also have it in a GitHub repo, if that's of any help? https://github.com/MadMikeyB/l5project

MadMikeyB

10 years ago

Best Answer

Level 16

Damn, as soon as I post this thread I realise that I had indeed found the solution here on this forum, but I had tried it on the wrong route!

It looks like changing my Routes file to this solved it:

// Cards and Notes only for Authenticated Users.
Route::group(['middleware' => ['web','auth']], function() {
    Route::get('cards', 'CardsController@index');
    Route::get('cards/{card}', 'CardsController@show');

    Route::post('cards/{card}/notes', 'NotesController@store');

    Route::get('notes/{note}/edit', 'NotesController@edit');
    Route::patch('notes/{note}', 'NotesController@update');
});

// Social Auth
Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function() {


    Route::get('/', 'PagesController@home');
    Route::get('about', 'PagesController@about');
    
    Route::auth();

    Route::get('social/{provider?}', 'Auth\AuthController@redirectToProvider');
    Route::get('social/{provider?}/callback', 'Auth\AuthController@handleProviderCallback');
});

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