Laravel CSRF TokenMismatchException

Question

some help appreciated on this laravel installation.

The problem (so far), cannot login. Almost vanilla Laravel login form so it includes the CSRF stuff.

The code is on a shared hosting. It previously worked on other hosting, and presently works locally on dev.

Any suggestions?

Non working environment is a new shared hosting, I've tried 777'ing my storage folder to see if it's permissions, same issue.

 <form class="form-horizontal" role="form" method="POST" action="{{ url('/login') }}">
    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{ csrf_token() }}">
    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('email') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="email" class="col-md-4 control-label">E-Mail Address</label>

        <div class="col-md-6">
            <input id="email" type="email" class="form-control" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}" required autofocus>

            @if ($errors->has('email'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('email') }}</strong>
            </span>
            @endif

        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('password') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
        <label for="password" class="col-md-4 control-label">Password</label>

        <div class="col-md-6">
            <input id="password" type="password" class="form-control" name="password" required>

            @if ($errors->has('password'))
            <span class="help-block">
                <strong>{{ $errors->first('password') }}</strong>
            </span>
            @endif
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
            <div class="checkbox">
                <label>
                    <input type="checkbox" name="remember"> Remember Me
                </label>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="form-group">
        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-4">
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
                Login
            </button>

            <a class="btn btn-link" href="{{ url('/password/reset') }}">
                Forgot Your Password?
            </a>
            <a class="btn btn-link" href="{{ url('/register') }}">
                Don't Have A Login?
            </a>
        </div>
    </div>
    {!! csrf_field() !!}
</form>

Handler.php is returning:

TokenMismatchException {#490 ▼
  #message: ""
  #code: 0
  #file: "/home1/artfocu2/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php"
  #line: 71
  trace: {▼
    /home1/artfocu2/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php:71 {▶}
    /home1/artfocu2/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Pipeline/Pipeline.php:149 {▶}
    /home1/artfocu2/public_html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Pipeline.php:53 {▶}