User Session not persisting

Please show some code. Otherwise we are only guessing.

And check what your SESSION_DRIVERis set to in .env

Agreed @sinnbeck. Here is what I am trying to do.

$user = new User();
$user->id = 1;
$user->name = "Name";
$user->email = "testmail";
$user->password = "testpass";
Auth::login($user);
return redirect()->route('login');

Basically I will be getting the user information from another Laravel project and DB through an API if the user credentials are correct. Thus in this Laravel project I only want to create temporary session for the user to access data related to his account.

The session was not persisting since the user did not exist in the users table. Upon creating the user it works. However in reality I will not be storing the users in this Laravel DB but in another.

Thus my question is, is it possible to use Auth::login on a $user which does not exist in the DB?

well the user is not stored in db but in session. once you reload the page, yes the session may clear and user details lost...

does this answer you.. before i go further

Yup, On the refresh session will end and you all entered details will be gone https://www.epayitonline.us/.

You cannot use Laravel's Auth system for this. Auth expects an ID of the user to be in session and will reload the user from the database on every request (or try to)

Just put the user credentials into session and write your own middleware and functions to check if these values exist in session.

once you reload the page, yes the session may clear and user details lost...

This is incorrect. We can rely on sessions being persistent otherwise our users would not manage to stay logged in, their shopping carts to remain intact etc.

In your 'login' just store the user's name and any other identifier you need in session. DO NOT use any Auth:: middleware or facade just look for yourself in session, are there credentials there - yes? The user is 'known'

Sorry for any confusion caused, I ended up writing my own Auth Guard and User Provider which authenticates the user credentials through an API call to another backend.