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Call to a member function session() on null - when deployed to Vapor

Hello,

When we deploy our app to vapor, we get his error

Call to a member function session() on null anywhere we call flash('success', $message);

Works perfectly fine when using php artisan serve

Thanks!

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bobbybouwmann's avatar
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What is the session driver you have set up for Vapor?

You need to use a persistent one like database or redis to make this work. Every request uses a different lambda, which means you can't use the file session driver as an example.

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