How can I log what is going wrong in my controller - php

Question

I am trying to register a user on my website with the laravel/vue.js/vuex. In my store actions, I'm calling the tryRegister action to post a request. But it keeps responding with a 401 error not authorizaed, and I don't understand why. So I made my controller as basic as it can get to just get a response and even then it keeps throwing the 401 authorization error. I'm new to back-end developing and just can't understand why this happens. I do know for sure that the route is working. How can I make my controller function give a basic response to see if it is working? And why is it giving an authorization error even tho I'm not doing anything with authorization, is that just the standard error a controller gives?
Try register action
tryRegister(context, credentials) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
axios
.post("/api/auth/register", credentials)
.then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
//context.commit("registerSucces", response.data);
resolve(response.data);
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error.response);
reject(error);
});
});
}
Authorization controller register function
public function register(Request $request)
{
// $user = User::create([
// 'email' => $request->email,
// 'password' => $request->password,
// ]);
//$token = auth('api')->login($user);
//return $this->respondWithToken($token);
return response()->json(['message' => 'controller register']);
}

Answer 1

your register method of the controller is not accessible because of the auth middleware. so you are getting not authorized error. make it accessible without authorization. in the constructor method of the controller change this line like below.
$this->middleware('auth:api', ['except' => ['login', 'register']]);
login and register are controller's method which will be now accessible without authorization.