Laravel authenticated user logout error

The AuthController's constructor should look similar to this:

public function __construct(){    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);}

The guest middleware is handled by the RedirectIfAuthenticated class and, in order to have the logout functionality working, you should choose one:

• call the logout method from your AuthController.

• call whichever method you use for logout and exclude it in AuthController's constructor:

  public function __construct(){    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => '<whichever_method>']);}

For potentially more-advanced reasons and needs, I will show a different idea.

Inside any middleware, a person could implement their own except list. Here is a reference:

<?phpnamespace App\Http\Middleware;use Closure;class CustomThing    protected $except = [        'api/logout',        'api/refresh',    ];    public function handle($request, Closure $next)    {        foreach ($this->except as $excluded_route) {            if ($request->path() === $excluded_route) {                \Log::debug("Skipping $excluded_route in this middleware...");                return $next($request);            }        }        \Log::debug('Doing middleware stuff... '. $request->url());    }}

I will leave it up to imagination to extend that to support other types of URLs. For example, investigate matchers such as $request->url(), $request->fullUrl(), and $request->is('admin/*').

A person could investigate the vendor code for the VerifyCsrfToken middleware and make their custom one support something like this:

    protected $except = [        'api/logout',        'api/refresh',        'foo/*',        'http://www.external.com/links',    ];

If you want it to be a reuseable solution, make that matching algorithm a Trait and import it into any middleware you want to exclude routes from.