Laravel 11 - Web routes $request→user() and Auth::user() getting null. API routes work fine.

[jitendrajp]

laravel upgraded 8 to 11, I'm getting $request→user() and Auth::user() null value in web route.

routes/web.php

Route::get('customer/{id}', [FrontendController::class, 'home']);

app/Http/Controllers/FrontendController.php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

public function home(Request $request)
{
    dd($request->user(), Auth::user());
}

bootstrap/app.php

->withRouting(
    web: __DIR__ . '/../routes/web.php',
    api: [
        __DIR__ . '/../routes/api/core.php',
        __DIR__ . '/../routes/api/user.php'
    ],
    commands: __DIR__ . '/../routes/console.php',
    health: '/up'
)
->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    //dd($middleware->getMiddlewareGroups());
})
->withExceptions(function (Exceptions $exceptions) {
    //
})->create();

Middleware groups showing when dd($middleware->getMiddlewareGroups())

"web" => [
    0 => "Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies",
    1 => "Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse",
    2 => "Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession",
    3 => "Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession",
    4 => "Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidateCsrfToken",
    5 => "Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings",
],
"api" => [
    0 => "Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings"
]

Config file

config/auth.php

'defaults' => [
    'guard' => 'api',
    'passwords' => 'users',
],

'guards' => [
    'web' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],

    'api' => [
        'driver' => 'jwt',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],
],

config/session.php

'driver' => 'file'

Your environment:

Q	A
Bug?	no / yes
New Feature?	no / yes
Framework	Laravel / Lumen
Framework version	11.x
Package version	2.7
PHP version	8.2

Expected behaviour

$request->user() or Auth::user() should be a logged-in user in the controller.

Actual behaviour

$request->user() and Auth::user() both are getting null

[specialtactics]

I'm not sure if this is the reason why, but can you add this to your config/auth.php

    'providers' => [
        'users' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => App\Models\User::class,
        ],
    ],

Also, what about your login routes, do they work fine?

There have been many changes from 8 to 11, so I am thinking there is some code or config missing somewhere, but it's hard to say what and where.

[jitendrajp]

config/auth

The user model is correct as per my model namespace.

'providers' => [
    'users' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\Models\System\User::class,
    ],
],

Yes, login/logout works fine with all the hundred of APIs. In APIs $request->user() and Auth::user() response getting below. The only issue with web routes, response is null.

App\Models\System\User {#2205
    #connection: "mysql"
    #table: "core_users"
    #primaryKey: "id"
    #keyType: "int"
    +incrementing: true
    #with: []
    #withCount: []
    +preventsLazyLoading: false
    #perPage: 15
    +exists: true
    +wasRecentlyCreated: false
    #escapeWhenCastingToString: false
    #attributes: array:40 [...]
    #original: array:40 [...]
    ...
}

[specialtactics]

I suppose the only thing I can think of is you create some minimum viable app to provide an example of this problem.

[jitendrajp]

I have created demo app to test, please follow https://github.com/jitendrajp/laravel11_jwt