Laravel 5.2 Auth::login not persisting logged user

Question

I have an authentication system which has also social login using Socialite.

The problem is when I use Auth::login() to log in the user when successfully authenticated from social media, the session doesn't persist after redirecting.

Though I am using the web middleware

here is my code in routes.php

Route::group(['namespace' => 'Frontend', 'middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    Route::get('/', 'PagesController@index');
    Route::get('login/{provider?}', 'AuthController@getLogin');
    Route::post('login', 'AuthController@postLogin');
    Route::get('login/callback/google', 'AuthController@getGoogleCallback');
    Route::get('login/callback/facebook', 'AuthController@getFacebookCallback');    
});

and when the user is successfully authenticated in Facebook for example, I use this in my controller

Auth::login($user);
return redirect()->to('/');

but after redirecting it gives me null

I also moved my User.php to app/Models/User.php and made all the necessary changes in config/auth.php .

Answer 1

You're missing the middleware = auth for your main route.

Route::group(['namespace' => 'Frontend', 'middleware' => ['web','auth'], function () {
     Route::get('/', 'PagesController@index');    
});

Basically your main route should have an auth middleware but not other routes as the guest users will need to be able to access to login page.