Laravel cannot get a POST in index (/)

Question

I am having a search form in the index view of my application, however whenever I submit it, it will redirect back to the homepage. Looking at Chrome's Network Tab, I saw a 302 Move Permanently status code when submitted. What I am trying to do is, I am getting the user keywords, storing them and redirecting to a search page.

Edit: After searching abit, I found this similar question as well. The answer provided did not solved my problem.

In routes.php

Route::get('/', ['as' => 'home', 'uses' => 'PagesController@home']);

/.../

Route::group(['before' => 'csrf'], function()
{
    Route::post('/', ['as' => 'post-search', 'uses' => 'UserController@postSearch']);
});

My form:

<form action="{{ URL::route('post-search') }}" method="POST" class="form-inline search">
    {{ Form::token() }}
    <input type="text" name="search" class="form-control" placeholder="{{ trans('form.search') }}">
    <input type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" value="Search">
</form>

Finally, my controller method:

public function postSearch()
{
    $fields = Input::all();

    $rules = [ 'search' => 'required' ];

    $validator = Validator::make($fields, $rules);

    if ($validator->fails())
    {
        return 'Validation did not work.';
    }
    else
    {
        $search = Input::get('search');

        return Redirect::route('search', $search);
    }

    return 'Something terrible happened.';
}

Your help is much appreciated.

Yea, my fault there. But it seems like that the postSearch() method is not even triggered. — Thanos Paravantis, Sep 14 '14 at 14:41
Strange, your exact code (minus the PageController and redirect to "search" route) works perfectly on my side. — , Sep 14 '14 at 14:47
That is very strange indeed, I tried with Firefox, but I got a 302 Move Permanently status code as well! — Thanos Paravantis, Sep 14 '14 at 15:09
What's your Laravel version ? Did you install any third-party packages ? Did you do `composer dump-autoload` ? (even though my attempt worked without doing that) — , Sep 14 '14 at 15:10
Nope, I have a clean Laravel 4.2 installation , with no third-party packages. I also executed that command, but nothing changed. — Thanos Paravantis, Sep 14 '14 at 15:13
Can you try using a clean installation just like I did ? Maybe it's a web-server configuration issue and has nothing to do with Laravel. — , Sep 14 '14 at 15:52
Remove the token from the form and also the token check from d route lets see if it works — Canaan Etai, Sep 14 '14 at 21:07
It happens to cause errors sometimes when the token from your form is different from the session's token — Canaan Etai, Sep 14 '14 at 21:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '14 at 10:37

I have had something like this before, it happened when the csrf token stored in the session is different from the one generated from the form. So, Modify your code lets see what happens.

From

Route::group(['before' => 'csrf'], function()

{ Route::post('/', ['as' => 'post-search', 'uses' => 'UserController@postSearch']); });

TO`

Route::post('/', ['as' => 'post-search', 'uses' => 'UserController@postSearch']);

if it works this way then you'll have to clear your browsers cookies and sessions befor you re-enable csrf

Laravel cannot get a POST in index (/)

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