Invalid Route when routing in Laravel 4.2

Question

I'm trying to create a new route, and for the life of me can't figure out why it's returning an invalid route response.

Here is the route (there are no filters on this route):

Route::get('api/books/{bookId}', 'BookController@getBook');

Here is the URL I use to query this route:

https://fakeBookSite.com/api/books/2?apiKey=someRandomKey

What is even stranger is that this route works:

Route::get('api/books', 'BookController@getBooks');

The route that works is listed BEFORE the one that doesn't, which is best practice in my understanding.

Even stranger , when I comment out the routes that do work, they still work when queried. I can only imagine that this is a caching issue, but as you will see below, I have cleared all the caches that I know about.

I have ran composer dump and composer clear and php artisan cache:clear . Your thoughts are highly appreciated!

Answer 1

The issue was actually a result of my FTP connection. I suppose that the files I was editing were not actually changing the server files. This just goes to show that if you feel you've tried everything, just 'restarting' is the way to go!