Authentication redirects fail

Question

when I login with wrong credentials I got the right response. when I login with the right credentials the login page reload with 302 request but it never redirect to statistics page. when I debug it I found that the code goes to this authinticate.php in the middleware folder, it redirect to the guest login state

if (Auth::guard($guard)->guest()) {
            if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
                return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
            } else {
                return redirect()->guest('login');
            }
        }

see the code:-

Route.php

Route::get('login', 'LoginController@index');
Route::post('signin', 'LoginController@signin');
Route::get('signout', 'LoginController@signout');


Route::group(['prefix' => 'api'], function() {
    Route::resource('authenticate', 'AuthenticateController', ['only' => ['index']]);
    Route::post('authenticate', 'AuthenticateController@authenticate');
});

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    Route::auth();
    Route::get('/', 'StatisticsController@index');
    Route::get('/statistics', 'StatisticsController@statistics');

});

Login Controller

    public function index() {

        return view('login');
    }

    public function signin(Request $request) {

        $errors = [];
        $email=$request['email'];
        $password= $request['password'];
        $credentials = array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password);

        if(Auth::attempt($credentials))
        {
          return redirect('/statistics');


        }
        return "bad request";

    }
     public function signout()
    {
        Auth::logout();
        return redirect('/login');    }

}

Statistics Controller

class StatisticsController extends Controller {
    public function __construct()
    {
                    $this->middleware('auth');

    }
    public function index() {

    return view('statistics')->with($data);
  }

public function statistics() {
        return view('statistics');

  }



}

Kernal.php note that there is JWT auth library I use it for restful authentication with the mobile app only.

protected $middleware = [
        \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
    ];

    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
        ],

        'api' => [
            'throttle:60,1',
        ],
    ];

    protected $routeMiddleware = [
        'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
        'auth.basic' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
        'guest' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
        'throttle' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::class,
        'jwt.auth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\GetUserFromToken',
        'jwt.refresh' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\RefreshToken'
    ];

middleware/authenticate.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class Authenticate
{

    public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
    {
        if (Auth::guard($guard)->guest()) {
            if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
                return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
            } else {
                return redirect()->guest('login');
            }
        }

        return $next($request);
    }
}

Answer 1

Check your cache.I had a similar problem, where I lost a couple of hours, so these where some of the steps I've made:

• php artisan route:clear
• clear browser cache
• run composer update
• Download a fresh copy of laravel(new project), and then slowly merge chunks of your code into the new project