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A Different Scenario

In my case, a different scenario came in to the fore as I was unable to log in to the dashboard once I added the above mentioned code. Frontend routes were working perfectly and there was no issue at all until I decided to logout of the dashboard and then log in back.

I tried a lot harder and went through a lot of blogs and forums but none of the solutions worked for me.

A Different Solution Using Middleware

Finally, I decided to try something else and that was to create a middleware that checks the uri request for the presence of trailing slash at the end. If the trailing slash is not present in the uri, then, it appends a trailing slash as I needed.

Here's the piece of code I added in the new middleware I added.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;



use Closure;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;

use Config;



class trailingSlashes

{

  /**

  * Handle an incoming request.

  *

  * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request

  * @param  \Closure  $next

  * @return mixed

  */

  public function handle($request, Closure $next)

  {

    if (!preg_match('/.+\/$/', $request->getRequestUri()))

    {            

      $base_url = Config::get('app.url');                    

      return Redirect::to($base_url.$request->getRequestUri().'/');

    }         

    return $next($request);

  }

}

Make sure that you have defined the base url of your application in your .env file for this middleware to produce output as expected.

How to create a middleware ?

Creating a middleware is quite easy in laravel. Run the laravel composer and paste the syntax shown below. You can opt for a different name of the middleware though.