Laravel 11 upgrade too many redirects

Yes, sounds like messed up middleware

Ok so the issue seems to be something with sessions. It's driving me nuts. The login happens as it should.

The auth middleware is where things are breaking down. In my routes/web.php file I have this:

Route::middleware(['auth'])->group(function () {
    Route::get('/dashboard', [HomeController::class, 'dashboard'])->name('dashboard');
});

But this just causes the redirect back to login. But when i comment out the middleware group the redirect doesn't happen, but of course the method fails because there's no user is session.

The controller looks like this:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

... all my use statements here

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }

    public function dashboard()
    {
        print_r(session()->all());
        exit;

        $serviceRequestsCreatedReport = new ServiceRequestsCreatedReport('today', 'html');

        return view('dashboard.index', [
            'service_requests_created_report' => $serviceRequestsCreatedReport->handle()->render(),
        ]);
    }
}

So in the dashboard method I added the print_r of the session. If I comment out the middleware group in the web.php file the session dump lines work. but with the middleware line active, it never gets there and redirects back to /login.

In the LoginController class it has AuthenticatesUsers class. I edited the AuthenticatesUsers class and added some dumps to the login() and sendLoginResponse() methods to confirm that it is in fact succeeding to login. I can dump the user data correctly there and die out.

It makes no sense why the session is lost when it redirects to the dashboard url.

Holy crap I just figured it out. Found a stackoverflow post. I just added this to the web routes file right after the middleware is called:

session()->regenerate();

Hope it helps others.