Laravel 5 sending information using get request

Question

In my project I use www.example.com/test?prevUrl=test/3/home this is working fine in development when inside my controller I do $request->prevUrl but doesn't work in production(returns null). can someone help?

edit= "The query_string is not being properly set i-e (?prevUrl=something ) and for that reason my paginator is also not working properly

Answer 1

I am using ubuntu 16.04 nginx server. The problem was that $_GET session variables were not being set properly. so what I did was inside /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and inside location / block/ directive I changed try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;to try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;and it worked.