Redirect to another view

@Slillz your method is post it should be get.

Why not just use an anchor tag?

<a href="{{route('register')}}"></a>

Ok. I changed it but when I click on the button it's still not able to find that page. Is the following all I need in my routes...?

return Redirect::route('register ');

Even with an anchor tab it's still not going to the right view.

What does your routes file look like?

@zachleigh I even tried to do it with the anchor that you mentioned but I keeping the following error message. The welcome and register view are in the same folder. "Not Found

The requested URL /register was not found on this server."

The following is my routes.php...

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

Route::get('register', function () { return view('register'); })->name('register');

https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/responses#redirects

Why not just do this?

<a href="/register"></a>

And then do the simplest thing possible in routes.

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

@jlrdw So I tried do it as a redirect but to no avail.

I changed my route to..

Route::get('register', function () { return redirect('register'); })->name('register');

Besides what @zachleigh said, are you on an up-to-date version? There was some major changes in web middleware.

Is the client sending a GET or a POST? The route expects a GET. Your example is a POST...

@zachleigh I did it exactly as you said and that doesn't work as well.

@jlrdw I just installed it this week.

Should my routes be under the middleware function. This is how it looks fully.

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

Route::get('register', function () { return view('register'); })->name('register');

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

});

What kind of server are you using?

apache running on linux

Have you tried other routes? Do they work? Does you htaccess file look like this?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews
    </IfModule>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine On

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
    RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

    # Handle Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I don't have that file. This is all being ran on a Ubuntu distro. The welcome route works jut fine. If I make that that register route the homepage it works fine as well.

@jimmck After the initial post i changed it to GET.

You don't have a .htaccess file located at public/.htaccess?
Laravel comes with one so it was either deleted or not uploaded when you installed the app of your server.
Create the file with content from the laravel repo.
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/public/.htaccess

You will also need to make sure your vhost has AllowOverride All for the public directory.

@spekkionu I just added that file

I just added that file

Are you able to access routes other than the homepage now?

It's still not finding my register page.

Can you put an exit('test') at the top of public/index.php (but after the <?php) and visit your register page and tell me if you see test on the page.

That will tell us if we need to be looking at your php code or your server configuration.

@spekkionu The welcome view is my homepage. Do you want me to put that code there?

The welcome view is my homepage. Do you want me to put that code there?

No, put it in public/index.php which is the frontcrontroller that all requests that aren't static files should be running.
The file should look like the following https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/v5.2.29/public/index.php If you don't see test then the apache rewrite rules aren't sending requests to this script which would cause only the welcome route to show.

I added exit('test') to index.php and when I open register.blade.php I don't see exit in the editor.

I mean open the page in the browser.

@spekkionu For some reason I can't get these views to open in a browser just by opening the register.blade.php file.

With exit('test') in the index.php I'm no longer able to open up the homepage though.

Edit: I was finally able to open that file, but I don't see exit being displayed in the window. Only the content of the view. Also I changed the .conf file to AllowOverride All

When I said to open the register route in the browser I did not mean the view file. I meant the url the route is pointing to which looks like /register.

What you see when you open up the homepage should be what you see for every url.
Because you don't that means the problem is likely your server configuration and has nothing to do with your routes, controllers, or views.
You can remove the exit statement you added as that was just a test.

Try to make sure your document root is pointed at your public directory and not the root of the application.
Because you said you were able to open your view file in the browser and the views directory is outside the public directory you likely have this pointed at the wrong place.

@spekkionu I was able to open up the URL I'm able to see the content correctly. I have a question though. Both views(welcome and register) are in the same directory. To get to my welcome view I point the URL to http://laravel.websitename.com...but to get to the register view I point it to http://laravel.wooberri.com/index.php/register... Does that seem correct?

@spekkionu The problem is solved. After running "sudo a2enmod rewrite" and restarting the apache server the routes are now found. I don't understand what that command does but I will google it. Thanks for all of your help.