I am trying to upload an application that uses laravel to a live apache server that uses https but I noticed my post requests stopped working in the process and I noticed that my cookies in the request and response lacked the x-csrf token and session one as well to proceed with the request. For my language switch post (supposed to switch languages) this happens and I get a page expired error
//web.php
Route::post('/language/switch', [LanguageController::class,'switchLanguage'])->name('language.switch');
//languageController.php
public function switchLanguage(Request $request) {
$language = $request->language;
app()->setLocale($language);
$previousUrl = url()->previous();
$route = Route::getRoutes()->match(Request::create($previousUrl));
$routeName = $route->getName();
$newRouteName = preg_replace('/^(en|fr)\.(.*)$/', $language . '.\2', $routeName);
return redirect()->route($newRouteName);
}
//navbar.blade.php
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
{{app()->getLocale() == 'en' ? 'English' : 'Français'}}
</a>
<div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink">
<form action="{{route('language.switch')}}" method="POST">
@csrf
<input type="hidden" name="language" value="{{app()->getLocale() == 'en' ? 'fr' : 'en'}}">
<button class="dropdown-item" type="submit">{{app()->getLocale() == 'en' ? 'Français' : 'English'}}</button>
</form>
</div>
</li>
It is not just the post that gets a page expired error the others do too and I have @csrf on all of them. I tried using a hidden input as well to no avail how can I fix the page expired error?
I used another web host and that seems to have fixed the problem I had.