Redirecting to named route using middleware yields page not found

Question

I have the following routes in my web.php file:

Route::get('/', 'PostsController@index')->name('home');
Route::get('/login', 'SessionsController@show');

SessionController class has a public constructor that uses Laravel's middleware to check if a user is a guest:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SessionsController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct() {
        $this->middleware('guest')->except(['destroy']);

    public function create() {

        // Validade form data
        $this->validate(request(), [
            'email' => 'required',
            'password' => 'required'
        ]);

        // Attempt to authenticate the user
        if(! auth()->attempt(request(['email', 'password']))) {
            return back()->withErrors([
                'message' => 'Please check you credentials and try again'
            ]);
        }
        return redirect()->home();
    }
    public function show() {
        return view('login.show');
    }

    public function destroy() {
        auth()->logout();
        return redirect()->home();
        //return redirect()->route('home');
    }
}

What happens is that when i'm logged in and i try to access /login i'm being redirected to home but i get a "sorry, page not found" in the browser. I understood that the middleware checks if i'm a guest when i try to login, if i'm not it should redirect me to the refereed page.

I checked php artisan route:list and i can see that / is assigned the name home. I'm out of ideas now and i will appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Try this

return redirect()->route('home');