Can't update user on the server but works on localhost using Laravel

Question

I'm working on an API and a lot of it works great, but for some reason I cannot update the members.

This is the route:

    Route::prefix('member')->group(function () {
    Route::post('login', [App\Http\Controllers\Api\MemberAuthController::class, 'login']);
    Route::post('register', [App\Http\Controllers\Api\MemberAuthController::class, 'register']);

    Route::middleware('auth:member_api', 'member.auth.api')->group(function () {
        Route::get('/', [App\Http\Controllers\Api\MemberAuthController::class, 'getMember']);
        Route::put('/', [App\Http\Controllers\Api\MemberController::class, 'update']);

Auth works great, I login, get token, paste the token and I send the PUT request to my localhost or server.

When I send the request to the localhost, I get the updated member back, but when I send request to the server I get the member as it was and it's still the same in the database.

This is the MemberController update method:

 * @param string $locale The locale setting (e.g., 'en-us')
 * @param Request $request
 * @param MemberService $memberService
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
 */
public function update(string $locale, Request $request, MemberService $memberService)
{
    $member = $request->user('member_api');

    $data = $request->only(['name', 'email', 'password', 'street_name_number', 'city', 'zipcode', 'phone']);

    $updatedMember = $memberService->update($member, $data);

    return response()->json(['member' => $updatedMember], 200);

And this is the MemberService update method

 * @param Member $member
 * @param array $data
 * @return Member
 */
public function update(Member $member, array $data): Member
{
    if (isset($data['password'])) {
        $data['password'] = bcrypt($data['password']);
    }

    $member->update($data);

    return $member->fresh();
}

I thought it would be simple, but I have no idea why it ain't working.

Edit: tried on two separate servers, it's one of those finished laravel apps with web application and api part. This API part needed some extending and all was well until the update method

This is the top part of member model where properties are:

class Member extends Authenticatable implements HasLocalePreference, HasMedia

use HasApiTokens, Notifiable, InteractsWithMedia, HasIdentifier, HasCustomShortflakePrimary, HasSchemaAccessors;

/**
 * The table associated with the model.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $table = 'members';

/**
 * The attributes that should be cast.
 *
 * @var array<string, string>
 */
protected $casts = [
    'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
    'last_login_at' => 'datetime',
    'meta' => 'array',
    'created_at' => 'datetime',
    'created_at' => 'datetime',
    'deleted_at' => 'datetime',
];

/**
 * The attributes that should not be exposed by API and other public responses.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $hiddenForPublic = [
    'affiliate_id',
    'role',
    'member_number',
    'display_name',
    'birthday',
    'gender',
    'two_factor_enabled',
    'two_factor_secret',
    'two_factor_recovery_codes',
    'account_expires_at',
    'premium_expires_at',
    'country_code',
    'phone_prefix',
    'phone_country',
    'phone',
    'phone_e164',
    'is_vip',
    'is_active',
    'accepts_text_messages',
    'is_undeletable',
    'is_uneditable',
    'number_of_emails_received',
    'number_of_text_messages_received',
    'number_of_reviews_written',
    'number_of_ratings_given',
    'meta',
    'media',
    'deleted_at',
    'deleted_by',
    'created_by',
    'updated_by'
];

public function hideForPublic() 
{
    $this->makeHidden($this->hiddenForPublic);

    return $this;
}

/**
 * Allow mass assignment of a model.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $guarded = [];

/**
 * Append programmatically added columns.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $appends = [
    'avatar',
];

/**
 * The attributes that should be hidden for serialization.
 *
 * @var array<int, string>
 */
protected $hidden = [
    'password',
    'remember_token',
];

public function newEloquentBuilder($query)
{
    return new MemberQueryBuilder($query);
}

/**

Answer 1

Greetings all who wander here,

To answer this old question (Sorry, I've been in rush so I forgot to post the solution)

For some reason, nothing worked until I simply used $request->all(), and later on I added avatar so it looks like this:

public function update(Request $request, MemberService $memberService)
{
    $member = $request->user('member_api');

    $avatar = $request->file('avatar');

    $data = $request->except(['avatar']);
    Log::info($avatar, $data);
    $updatedMember = $memberService->update($member, $data);

    if ($avatar) {
        $memberService->updateAvatar($member, $avatar);
    }

    return response()->json(['member' => $updatedMember], 200);
}

Hope this will help another Laravel developer :D

Thank you all for help in the above responses!