This is driving me crazy for weeks now:
How can I make sessions available on the 404 page? I just
embed the 404 error page in my default template. It also shows the navbar
and the footer but how can I keep my user logged in when on a 404?
On a 404 Auth::check() always returns false and every else whats session specific is null or empty.
How to enable sessions on (404) error pages?
What you can do is, inside the app/http/Kernel.php add the follwing block of code:
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
Inside the $middleware variable. So it would look like:
protected $middleware = [
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
];
It worked for me, I hope it works for you as well.
Just to expand a bit on the existing answer: make sure to remove that middleware from $middlewareGroups if it's also there, so you don't apply the middleware twice.
You'll end up with something like this:
protected $middleware = [
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\TrimStrings::class,
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
];
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [
\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
//\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
//\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
//\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
],
'api' => [
'throttle:60,1',
'bindings',
],
];
As far as my understanding goes this was caused because the middleware that deals with the session, by being at the web group was being applied only to those pages routed on web.php. And since the default error handling does not redirect to a routed page we had no access to the session.
This way the middleware will be applied to all pages, and not only to those routed on web.php, including the error ones.
I originally found the soution here, but took me a while to understand why this was happening (thought i cold have gotten it all wrong, feel free to confirm or correct this please).
Hope it helps, it's working for me on Laravel 5.4