Laravel Form POST redirect failure - php

Question

I'm having a very frustrating (super-newbie) experience with Laravel 5.1.
Sure there must be something that I'm missing, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything on Laravel docs.
The problem is this (and I believe is even relatively simple): while all GET routes are working, the routes in POST are 'rerouting' me to the wrong place.
For instance, assuming that the controller is this:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use View;
class PagesController extends BaseController {
public function hello(){
return view('hello');
}
public function register(){
//Registration rules
$inputData=array(
'name' => \Input::get('name'),
'email' =>\Input::get('email'),
'password' => bcrypt(\Input::get('password')),
);
createUser($inputData);
return view('stat');
}
private function createUser($inputData){
return User::create($inputData);
}
}
and given the route:
Route::get('/','PagesController#hello');
this one redirects me correctly to the view specified in the controller,at the method indicated.
A POST operation cannot be successfully performed, since
Route::post('/','PagesController#register');
with the form having:
<form action="/" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="<?php echo csrf_token(); ?>">
<label for="name">User Name</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/><br/>
<label for="name">E-mail</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email"/><br/>
<label for="password">password</label><br/>
<input type="password" name="password" id="password"/><br/>
<input type="submit" value="auth!"/>
</form>
results in redirecting me to xampp home page.
For example, the "main registration page" is at this url:
http://localhost:8080/laravel/project1/public/
(GET OK)
and when I click on the submit button, I'm sent to
http://localhost:8080/
Just few more indicators for you to try and help me (I'm genuinely stuck):
1) I didn't use a VirtualHost (searched on the web, but had always no luck in configuring apache properly...good luck I've got xampp)
2) The page "hello" has a link that I used as a test:
Link
and it redirects me correctly to the sought-after
http://localhost:8080/laravel/project1/public/stat
3)In the POST method, I've used a dd($inputData) to see what was going wrong, and as a result I had...nothing. Not a blank page,just always the localhost page. This led me to think that somehow the controller method isn't called, since no dd(---) result got in page.
Hope someone can help.
Many thanks

Answer 1

Your domain is http://localhost:8080 , so when you set action to '/' , it goes to root. It`s not good practice , but your solution is to change :
<form action="/laravel/project1/public/" method="post">
I`d create a virtual host for the project in apache , so document root would be /laravel/project1/public/ .

Answer 2

you are posting your form to the root / that is why you are being routed to xampp page. To solve this problem, change your form action to this
<form action="/post/my/form" method="post">
in your routes
Route::post('/post/my/form','PagesController#register');