Laravel 5.1 route not defined redirect

Question

need to ask about error, when I tried to redirect my logout

This is UserController:

public function logout()
{

    Auth::logout();
    return redirect()->route('auth/login');
}

This is my routes:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
// Authentication routes...
Route::get('auth/login', 'Auth\AuthController@getLogin');
Route::post('auth/login', 'Auth\AuthController@postLogin');
Route::get('auth/logout', 'Auth\AuthController@getLogout');

// Registration routes...
Route::get('auth/register', 'Auth\AuthController@getRegister');
Route::post('auth/register', 'Auth\AuthController@postRegister');

Route::get('testing', 'UserController@test');
Route::get('logout', 'UserController@logout');

I think, taht everything is ok on routes and I defined login properly (like a Laravel documentation)

but it still take this error:

InvalidArgumentException in UrlGenerator.php line 306:
Route [auth/login] not defined.

Can you please what is wrong? Did I make any mistake?

Thanks a lot, have a nice day!

Answer 1

The route method expects a name, not a URI. So you need to name your route.

Like this:

Route::get('auth/login', ['as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'Auth\AuthController@getLogin']);

Or:

Route::get('auth/login', 'Auth\AuthController@getLogin')->name('login');

Now you can call return redirect()->route('login');

See the docs for Named Routes.

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Alternatively, you can just provide the URI in the redirect method like this:

return redirect('auth/login');

Though this would break if you ever change this endpoint. I'd recommend naming your routes and using those in your code.

Answer 2

change your return redirect()->route('auth/login'); to

return redirect('auth/login');

or return Redirect::to('auth/login');