Did you add the nova authorization gate for your users?
Documentation: https://nova.laravel.com/docs/2.0/installation.html#authorizing-nova
If you don't do this, you can't access nova pages!
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I recently purchased a nova license and downloaded v2.3.0 and added it to a laravel API project.
When I try to access nova via the default route localhost:8000/nova I get an AuthenticationException error but when I go to localhost:8000/nova/login I am able to reach the login page. But when I logout I get the same error.
I tried changing the default path to admin in config/nova.php and when I visit either localhost:8000/admin or localhost:8000/admin/login I get the same error.
How can I correct this behavior? I would like to customize the path to nova when I move to a staging and production environment so I need to get this to work locally first.
Here's the changes I made in config/nova.php
'url' => env('APP_URL', '/admin'),
'path' => '/admin',
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