Laravel artisan route:cache causes Erroneous data Exception

Question

Running the command: php artisan route:cache produces the following execption:

Erroneous data format for unserializing 'Symfony\Component\Routing\CompiledRoute'

Running: php artisan route:clear fixes it

I'd like to know how I can fix this so I can cache my routes.

Answer 1

For me, this error was solved by deleting the following path files:

\bootstrap\cache

Answer 2

This worked for me

php artisan optimize:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache
composer dump-autoload