Laravel 5.1 - Route doesnt work - php

Question

i have a problem with routes, i have my route:
Route::get('dashboard/password', 'UserController#password');
Route::post('dashboard/updatepassword', 'UserController#updatePassword');
// PAGINA UTENTE PUBBLICA
Route::get('/{username}', 'FrontController#user');
// blog routes
Route::get('blog', 'FrontController#blog');
Route::get('blog/{slug}', 'FrontController#article');
Route::get('blog/category/{name}', 'FrontController#BlogCategory');
Route::get('blog/tag/{name}', 'FrontController#tags');
Route::resource('comment', 'CommentController');
and my FrontController:
public function blog()
{
$articles = Article::OrderBy('id','DESC')->paginate(3);
$Allarticles = Article::OrderBy('id','DESC')->get();
$Allcategories = BlogCategory::OrderBy('id','DESC')->get();
$Alltags = Tag::OrderBy('id','DESC')->get();
$Allcomments = Comment::OrderBy('id','DESC')->take(3)->get();
return view('blog', compact('articles','Alltags','Allarticles','Allcategories','Allcomments'));
}
if i go to "http://localhost:8000/blog" it return to page where i was before. similar to route->back().
I dont know why i have this problem, other blog routes work well.
I done some test like this:
public function blog()
{
return "Hi";
}
it doesnt return "Hi", so i think is a problem with the route. i have not anable middleware here, my other routes like blog/article work well.

Answer 1

Could you post the contents of your routes file?
If there's any routes for 'blog' above the one you've posted which contain a parameter (eg. Route::get('blog/{blog_post_id}, ...), try moving them below 'blog' in the file.
If it isn't the above then it sounds like there might be some caching at play that's screwing around with stuff, it routinely catches me out when i'm running my optimisations to see how the production environment will perform and i forget to clear all the caches, Here's my usual fixes (that i've got aliased because i mess this up so often);
php artisan route:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan cache:clear (Side note, clears all auth sessions, will require a re-log)
composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize --force
This will completely clear any caches that have been created for routes, views and authorisation.
Also check your Laravel logs and your Apache/NginX logs as well, always worth having a look in those

Answer 2

Your issue is pattern matching in the routes file. It seems that Routes are assigned to the first route that matches the URI.
Route::get('/{username}', 'FrontController#user');
Route::get('blog', 'FrontController#blog');
http://localhost:8000/blog matches both these routes because the {username} could be blog and thus Route::get('/{username}', 'FrontController#user'); will always be used.
You must either be more specific in the route name (e.g. add more text) or more specific in the order of the routes. Here is an example with your current routes ordered in the way you would want.
Route::get('dashboard/password', 'UserController#password');
Route::post('dashboard/updatepassword', 'UserController#updatePassword');
// blog routes
Route::get('blog', 'FrontController#blog');
Route::get('blog/{slug}', 'FrontController#article');
Route::get('blog/category/{name}', 'FrontController#BlogCategory');
Route::get('blog/tag/{name}', 'FrontController#tags');
Route::resource('comment', 'CommentController');
// PAGINA UTENTE PUBBLICA
Route::get('{username}', 'FrontController#user');