Laravel sessions broken after ubuntu update

Question

I've upgraded my ubuntu server to version 18.04.1. After the upgrade my laravel website keeps displaying TokenMismatchException in every single POST page. The only exception to this rule seems to be the login page, which works for some users and not others.

My local virtual machine with version 16.04.4 works normally.

I'm stuck in this all morning, with my website down.

I'm receiving downvotes, did I forget post some information? — Gabriel Vaz de Carvalho, Aug 28 '18 at 15:21
you need to debug all steps of csrf protection. Insufficient info to figure out — Sergey Shuryakov, Aug 28 '18 at 16:10
It seems that the website is failing at creating the session entries on the database. When comparing my local database with the live one, the live one is empty. — Gabriel Vaz de Carvalho, Aug 28 '18 at 17:36
There are no erros being displayed since the session not being created happens when the previous page loads. I've tried creating a session using the session() command and it also does nothing without displaying erros — Gabriel Vaz de Carvalho, Aug 28 '18 at 17:45
is it work if you change driver to file `'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'file'),` in config/session.php ? — Sergey Shuryakov, Aug 28 '18 at 18:12
I'm using the database driver, that does not seem to be the issue since both machines have the same configuration — Gabriel Vaz de Carvalho, Aug 28 '18 at 21:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '18 at 22:12

After many attempts including an server rollback that did not immediately work, it just randomly started working by showing less and less errors until they were all gone. I'm not exactly sure what was the key to solving it.

My final version included:

SESSION_DRIVER => 'database'
SESSION_DOMAIN => null
Complete server rollback
Many cache clears
Erasing all remember_keys
Erasing all browser data

Laravel sessions broken after ubuntu update

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