Routes.php is not working

routes.php has been removed in Laravel 5 because of route annotations. See the video below

https://laracasts.com/series/whats-new-in-laravel-5/episodes/11

And you will understand why. There is a way to come back to the old routing techniques but it is not recommended and I woludn't recommend it either.

You can use the routes.php file by requiring routes.php in RoutesServiceProvider.php map method.

@maytham Uncomment the following in app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/develop/app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

/**
  * Define the routes for the application.
  *
  * @return void
  */
 public function map(Router $router)
 {
  // require app_path('Http/routes.php');
 }

@lulian_Clita I won't say it has been removed. This is not the preferred method anymore for routing BUT the functionality is still present. It's up to user to decide its favorite flavour :)

Guys that was a help, wasted around 3-4 hours google searching, now I understand. Btw I suggest the video should be updated, otherwise it makes newbies get confused. thanks every one again.

my advice right now is not to use routes.php and just stick to php annotations. I find there are a lot of problems if I use routes.php even if I remove all annotations, but seems to work fine if I just stick to annotations. Suspect it will be that way until release.

@nolros What problems did you have using the routes file?

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/l5-route-error-contexterrorexception-in-routeserviceproviderphp-line-53

I'm not able to reproduce that problem and tbh, sounds like that was in the midst of people being warned Taylor was doing a handful of changes.

I made a new instance of L5 last night, after the commit-fest, and built a (really) simple article mini-site using only routes.php for defining the routes. Completely cleared out the annotations in the default auth and home controllers, and used the auth and guest middleware.