Route not found only in production

Hello,

I work on an existing Laravel application (v7.24) and a web route was defined like this.

$proxy_url    = getenv('PROXY_URL');
$proxy_scheme = getenv('PROXY_SCHEME');

if(env('APP_ENV') != 'local') {
    if (!empty($proxy_url)) {
        URL::forceRootUrl($proxy_url);
    }

    if (!empty($proxy_scheme)) {
        URL::forceScheme($proxy_scheme);
    }
}

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

Route::get('store', function ()
{
    if (!request()->input('file')) {
        abort(404);
    }
    $filename = request()->input('file');
    $path = 'public/' . $filename;

    if (!Storage::exists($path)) {
        abort(404);
    }
    return Storage::response($path);
});

Here is an example of how the route is used from the frontend developed with nuxt / VueJS.

http://mysuperdomain.com/store?file=%2Fbup%2F9XrKJaJaKvDMo3k0mPPD6MvSNj3i89n801K8s9PT.jpg"

The other routes are API routes.

In development and in production, php artisan route:list shows that the route exists.

The route displays the image in development mode, but the route is not found in production mode (404 error). I have tested to change the abort(404) in the closure (for example with 405 error) and I also have a 404 error, in other words the route is not recognized in production mode.

I know that there are bad pratices in this code, I don't have written it myself, but is there any reason for which the route could be not recognized only in production mode ?

I specify that the routes are not cached in production on the demo server and the CORS problems seem to be solved.

I think that the problem is necessarily binded to the server configuration or perhaps any environment variable or something with the frontend or ... but I have no idea where I could search, at what part of the code I could look to find a solution.

If you have any idea, it would be great.

Thanks a lot.

Vincent