The api not work in Postman when requested by url

Question

i have start the server using xampp

http://localhost/api/login

used this url in postman for request and still get this error

**Not Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.54 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1p PHP/8.2.0 Server at localhost Port 80**

my route in api.php is

Route::post('login',[userController::class,'userLogin']);

I have tried with php artisan serve with url
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/login
but didn't work

Answer 1

You need to clear your route cache by

php artisan route:cache

This is common when testing with Postman. Once your routes cache is cleared, your route will be picked up by Postman.