Laravel api routes not working, it's always redirecting

Question

I am having an issue with laravel doing my backend Api. What I am trying to do is return logged user data with Auth::user(); I wrote the controller, the route for the controller method in api.php but when I try to go to the /api/route I am redirected to Home.

I also tried to remove the __construct() method from the controller, When I do this and try to go to the /api/route, dd($user) is returning null.

My controller:

namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;

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

use App\Http\Resources\TeacherResource;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class teacherApiController extends Controller
{

    public function __construct(){
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }


    public function information(){
        $user = Auth::user();
        dd($user);
    }
}

Api.php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
});

Route::get('information', 'API\teacherApiController@information');

Anything I am doing wrong? I am using the laravel authentication for register and login users.

Songoudaha Gabeta Soro Songoudaha Gabeta Soro · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-23T10:09:30

I suppose you are not authenticated before calling this route that's why when the __construct was there it redirected you to the home, that's also why Auth::user() returns you null. You are probably not authenticated before calling this route.

To manage the authentication you used laravel passport or even used JWT

Laravel api routes not working, it's always redirecting

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