Is "The page has expired due to inactivity" issue a bug in Laravel 5.5?

Please, can you show me your code? Form, route and controller?

@JoaoPedroAS51 Here is my test method in Controller:

 public function test(Request $request){
        return $request->all();
    }

my web.php:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Route::post('/',"TestController@test")->name('test');

and here is my form that is in welcome.blade.php:

<form action="{{route('test')}}" method="POST">
    {{csrf_field()}}
    <input type="text" name="name">
    <button type="submit">send</button>
</form>

Try to change this:

public function test(Request $request)
{
    return $request->all();
}

to this:

public function test(Request $request)
{
    return $request::all();
}

or this:

public function test()
{
    return request()->all();
}

@JoaoPedroAS51 Why? The second one will only work if the all() method is static (it’s not), and the third is just an alias for $request->all().

This is indeed a CSRF problem. I received this message once and it was because I was not sending the csrf token with my request. Very strange your still getting it, since you are indeed sending the token.

@wilburpowery I have two guard in my main project and in some cases token mismatch exception occurs. I checked framework/session directory and in every reload a new session file create there!

Are you using Windows, Mac or Linux? @behnamazimi

@wilburpowery I'm using Window 10

Whenever you get that error, if you refresh the page, are you still authenticated?

When I was on Windows last year I had a problem where my session would log out every now and then when I changed my PHP code. It's very weird. @behnamazimi

When I logged in every thing is OK, but when I reload the page the authentication lost! I really confused. I really don't know what should I do! I did huge percent f a project with this version on laravel(5.5) but this issue ruined everything! ☹️ @wilburpowery

This is just an issue for Windows users on Local Environment. I suffered a lot with this also when on Windows. Once you deploy to your production server, you won't have any issue at all.

It's important to note that this is not an issue with Laravel 5.5 version only. I first saw this issue in version 5.2.

@wilburpowery Do you have any suggestion to solve this? Should I change my local server or maybe my os?

I think a good fix for this would maybe be using something like Homestead. Honestly I only suffered this problem when using Windows. Have you evered used Homestead?

In stead of using Homestead, consider using Vessel by @fideloper. It is very simple to use. All you need is to install the Docker app and then follow the Vessel docs. Works great, lasts a long time.

@wilburpowery No I don't. I checked your reply as a solution, I test my project on linux os and it's completely true! thanks a lot for your replies. could you answer my stack question too? this Q

Done @behnamazimi

I also experience this Problem. I uploaded my laravel project in AWS under ubuntu 16.04 server running in nginx.

I also test the fresh install laravel and add make:auth but i still get

"The page has expired due to inactivity.

Please refresh and try again. "

any idea how to solve it?

Experiencing the same problem. Its working fine in the local environment but it is not working in the cloud server (Godaddy Shared Linux Hosting). Done everything I got and really want to know the solution ASAP.

For those who still has problem and nothing helped. Pay attention on php.ini mbstring.func_overload parameter. It has to be set to 0. And mbstring.internal_encoding set to UTF-8. In my case that was a problem.

For those who still has problem and nothing helped. Pay attention on php.ini mbstring.func_overload parameter. It has to be set to 0. And mbstring.internal_encoding set to UTF-8. In my case that was a problem.