Laravel - 404 Not Found when trying any endpoint

Question

I have just created a Laravel project and testing the first endpoint through Insomnia, however, this always returns 404.

In the project directory, I have installed valet and used its URL, which then returns 404 whenever I run a request through Insomnia.

Also when I run valet open from the project directory this opens a web page with the Laravel main page which makes me think that valet is working fine.

api.php

Route::group([
  'middleware' => 'api',
  'prefix' => 'auth'
], function ($router) {
  Route::post('register', 'AuthController@registerUser');
  Route::get('', 'AuthController@testing');
});

AuthController.php

public function registerUser()
{
  return response()->json('User signed up');
}

public function testing()
{
  return response()->json('Test ok');
}

The snipped code above is the route that I currently have in place which should simply go to the AuthController file and run the registerUser method.

Whatever I am doing on Insomnia is:

Answer 1

Your routes are probably not for the URLs you think they are. They are probably:

mentorme-api.test/api/auth
mentorme-api.test/api/auth/register

The routes/api.php file gets loaded in a route group with prefix api for you.

Run php artisan route:list from the command line to see how your routes have been registered.

The group definition the routes/api.php routes get loaded into:

Route::prefix('api')
     ->middleware('api')
     ->namespace($this->namespace)
     ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));

Prefixed with api and already have the api middleware applied. You can remove 'middleware' => 'api' from your group definition for your 2 routes.