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How do you think we can investigate your problem if you don't provide neither your code nor errors/logs?
Jun 14, 2025
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Redirects work locally but not in prod
I've got my redirects in a controller (because I read that would be a better way to do it). Because of the size of my site, they are in a separate route file.
Here's my route:
Route::get('index.php/biography/{id}', [\App\Http\Controllers\RedirectsController::class, 'biographyOverviewRedirect']);
Here's my controller:
public function biographyOverviewRedirect($id) {
return redirect('biography/'.$id, 301);
}
They are working locally (using Herd) but not in production.
Has anyone had this happen? Any suggestions for a fix?
(I'm still on Laravel 10)
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@Glukinho I was adding it when you added this comment.
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First, having route with index.php is wrong, you should probably tune your web server to get rid of 'index.php'. Nginx settings are in docs: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/deployment#nginx
Second, provide full RedirectsController.php file.
Third, what is the error an when it happens?
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@Glukinho Google is finding index.php. It's not even a route.
Controller:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class RedirectsController extends Controller { public function biographyOverviewRedirect($id) { return redirect('biography/'.$id, 301); } }
It gives a 404 error.
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@jerauf what URL exactly gives you 404 error?
Also please wrap all code in three backticks:
| ```
| ..code..
| ```
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@jerauf look in Chrome Dev Tools / Network when reaching out this URL. You should see two requests:
- first gets 302 code + Location header
- second goes where Location header points and gets 404.
Is it true?
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Do you have a route that corresponds to redirect('biography/...)? Can you show output of command php artisan route:list?
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Also, I don't get the idea of having a dedicated controller just to redirect to another place of your app. Why you can't just return requested data without redirection?
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