Laravel phpunit returns 404

Question

i am new in Laravel. Using local development environment with Homestead Try to run simple test

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Tests\TestCase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;

class UserTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic test example.
     *
     * @return void
     */

    public function testBasicTest()
    {
        $response = $this->get('/');

        $response->assertStatus(200);
    }
}

routes/web.php :

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('main');
});

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

running phpunit returns 404 error

vagrant@homestead:~/code/laravel$ phpunit PHPUnit 6.4.3 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.

.F. 3 / 3 (100%)

Time: 1.07 seconds, Memory: 10.00MB

There was 1 failure:

1) Tests\Feature\UserTest::testBasicTest Expected status code 200 but received 404. Failed asserting that false is true.

/home/vagrant/code/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php:78 /home/vagrant/code/laravel/tests/Feature/UserTest.php:25

I have tried to fix it with these ways

1. Laravel phpunit always 404 updateTestCase.php

    protected $baseUrl = 'http://localhost'

change with

    protected $baseUrl = 'http://laravel.local'

2. https://github.com/dingo/api/issues/540 and next to it https://github.com/dingo/api/issues/571

    use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
    class BankTest extends TestCase {
        use WithoutMiddleware;

3. Changing APP_URL in .env to

   APP_URL=laravel.local
   

none of this helped

'laravel.local' works fine in browser

Please, help me fix it

Answer 1

I was running my application with following URL in browser. http://localhost/app/public/

The default unit test having below line was failing. It was getting 404 response instead of 200.

$response = $this->get('/'); $response->assertStatus(200);

I changed APP_URL in .env file as below after reading above comments.

APP_URL=http://localhost

But I was still getting 404 error. After some trial and errors, I found that I needed to clear config cache.

php artisan config:cache

This did the trick and my test started working!!

Answer 2

I had the same problem, and if I run laravel with php artisan serve, it has to be:

APP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000/

The APP_URL, has to be exactly the URL of the website.

The website was working, but I didn't have that constant correctly, and PHPUnit was saying all time 404.

Don't forget to clear the cache, after change the config

php artisan config:cache