php - Laravel 5: Sessions on 404 route

Question

This is driving me crazy for weeks now: How can I make sessions available on the 404 page? I just embed the 404 error page in my default template. It also shows the navbar and the footer but how can I keep my user logged in when on a 404?

On a 404 Auth::check() always returns false and every else whats session specific is null or empty.

How to enable sessions on (404) error pages?

Answer 1

What you can do is, inside the app/http/Kernel.php add the follwing block of code:

    IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
    IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,

Inside the $middleware variable. So it would look like:

    protected $middleware = [
    IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareCheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
    IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
    IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,
    ];

It worked for me, I hope it works for you as well.