why error "laravel 5.5 The page has expired due to inactivity. Please refresh and try again" even after {{ csrf_field() }}

Question

I already have {{ csrf_field() }} in form. it works fine but after inactivity for some time create this error. why ?

Answer 1

You should change lifetime of your session so that CSRF token could stick around longer. It is set up in config/session.php file, by default it's configured as:

'lifetime' => env('SESSION_LIFETIME', 120),

Meaning your session will persist for 120 minutes by default if not set otherwise in your .env file.