John Davidson

Message:

So I've cloned my own laravel project, that works on my main machine, to my test pc and set it up as follows:

1. Installed XAMPP and set it up.


2. git clone project to the machine.


3. Installed composer on the machine.


4. executed the command composer install.


5. php artisan key:generate.


6. I installed Postgres and set up a DB


7. uncommented Postgres extensions in php.ini


8. Edited the .env file to connect to the DB


9. php artisan migrate:fresh.


10. php artisan db:seed. (New users)

Now when trying to log in, the page just refreshes. I found out that I'm able to read and write to the database when creating a new page that is not protected by the login.

So something with the whole auth situation must be wrong. Did I miss anything when setting the whole project up? Or where the commands executed in the wrong order?

Oh btw. The auth was made with php artisan make:auth

Here is part of my web.php. The whole thing is really big.

<?php

/*

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

| Web Routes

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

|

| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These

| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which

| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!

|

*/



Route::get('/', function () {

    return view('welcome');

});



Auth::routes();



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



Route::get('/user', 'UsersController@index')->middleware(['auth.admin']); 

Route::post('/user', 'UsersController@store')->middleware(['auth.admin']);  

Route::get('/user/edit/{id}', 'UsersController@edit')->middleware(['auth.admin']); 

Route::post('/user/update/{id}', 'UsersController@update')->middleware(['auth.admin']); 

Route::get('/user/delete/{id}', 'UsersController@delete')->middleware(['auth.admin']);

Route::get('/usersearch', 'UsersController@search');

Route::get('/user/paginate/{id}', 'UsersController@paginate')->middleware(['auth.admin']);



Route::get('/order', 'OrderItemController@index');

Route::get('/order/delete/{id}', 'OrderItemController@delete'); 

Route::get('/order/edit/{id}', 'OrderItemController@edit'); 

Route::post('/order/update/{id}', 'OrderItemController@update'); 

Route::post('/order', 'OrderItemController@store');

Route::get('/ordersearch', 'OrderItemController@search');

Route::get('/order/paginate/{id}', 'OrderItemController@paginate');



Route::get('/customer/delete/{id}', 'CustomerController@delete');

Route::get('/customer/edit/{id}', 'CustomerController@edit');

Route::post('/customer/update/{id}', 'CustomerController@update'); 

Route::get('/customer', 'CustomerController@index');

Route::post('/customer', 'CustomerController@store');

Route::get('/customer/paginate/{id}', 'CustomerController@paginate');

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My Answer:
Laravel provides a built-in authentication system that makes it easy to implement user authentication in your application. The `php artisan make:auth` command can be used to generate the necessary authentication scaffolding, including login and registration views, controllers, and routes.

Once the authentication scaffolding has been generated, you can use the `Auth` facade to handle user authentication in your application. This includes methods for logging in users, logging out users, and checking if a user is authenticated.

For example, you can use the `Auth::attempt()` method to authenticate a user based on their email and password:

php
if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $email, 'password' => $password])) {
// Authentication successful
} else {
// Authentication failed
}


You can also use the `Auth::check()` method to check if a user is currently authenticated:

php
if (Auth::check()) {
// User is authenticated
} else {
// User is not authenticated
}


Laravel's authentication system also provides middleware that can be used to restrict access to certain routes based on whether a user is authenticated. You can apply the `auth` middleware to a route or group of routes to require authentication:

php
Route::get('/dashboard', function () {
// Only authenticated users can access this route
})->middleware('auth');


Overall, Laravel's authentication system provides a convenient and secure way to implement user authentication in your application.