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TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php

Hi,

Getting this error in login form. I am using the default login form provided by Laravel 5.2

I researched and found this error does show up from time to time for various people. Since the login form by default has the {!! csrf_field() !!} so I am not sure how to fix this whole thing.

From the error what I understand is that the session values don't match. But how do i fix this?

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mercuryseries's avatar

@gmehtaster Make sure that your route is in the web group middleware.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    // Your route here...
});
gmehtaster's avatar

@mercuryseries

I used php artisan make:auth to create authentication mechanism.

So I don't see explicit routes for login/registration in my routes.php

mercuryseries's avatar

@gmehtaster Indeed the command php artisan make:auth add this line: Route::auth(); in your routes file.

Make sure you get:

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

    //Other routes...
});
gmehtaster's avatar

Looks like I was able to solve it.

Just to give you a background of what caused the problem.

I created a custom middleware called UUID middleware. I then added it to all my routes. So the sequence of middleware was 'web', 'uuid'.

Its after this I started facing this issue. What I did to solve this was switch web and uuid middleware in my routes. I placed UUID first and web last.

That solved the issue for me.

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