Defined route throwing controller method not found laravel 4 - php

Question

I have a route defined in routes.php file but when i make an ajax request from my angular app, i get this error
{"error":{"type":"Symfony\\Component\\HttpKernel\\Exception\\NotFoundHttpException","message":"Controller method not found.","file":"C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\tedxph\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Routing\\Controllers\\Controller.php","line":290}}
this is my routes file
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Api Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api'), function() {
//Auth Routes
Route::post('auth/login', 'ApiUserController#authUser');
Route::post('auth/signup', 'ApiUserController#registerUser');
/* Persons */
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'people'), function() {
Route::get('{id}', 'ApiPeopleController#read');
Route::get('/', 'ApiPeopleController#read');
});
/* Events */
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'events'), function() {
Route::get('{id}', 'ApiEventsController#read');
Route::get('/','ApiEventsController#read');
});
});
Accessing the same url (http://localhost/site/public/api/auth/signup) from a rest client app on chrome does not give any errors, what could be wrong?
this is the angular code from my controller
$rootScope.show('Please wait..registering');
API.register({email: email, password: password})
.success(function (data) {
if(data.status == "success") {
console.log(data);
$rootScope.hide();
}
})
.error(function (error) {
console.log(error)
$rootScope.hide();
})
more angular code
angular.module('tedxph.API', [])
.factory('API', function ($rootScope, $http, $ionicLoading, $window) {
//base url
var base = "http://localhost/tedxph/public/api";
return {
auth: function (form) {
return $http.post(base+"/auth/login", form);
},
register: function (form) {
return $http.post(base+"/auth/signup", form);
},
fetchPeople: function () {
return $http.get(base+"/people");
},
fetchEvents: function() {
return $http.get(base+"/events");
},
}
});

Answer 1

It'd help to see the code you're using to make the angular request, as well as the header information from Chrome's Network -> XHR logger, but my first guess would be Angular is sending the AJAX request with the GET method instead of the POST method. Try changing Angular to send an explicit POST or change routes.php so auth/signup responds to both GET and POST requests.
Update looking at your screen shots, the AJAX request is returning an error 500. There should be information logged to either your laravel.log file or your PHP/webserver error log as to why the error is happening. My guess if your Angular request sends different information that your Chrome/REST-app does, and that triggers a code path where there's an error.

Answer 2

Fixed the problem, turns my controller was calling an undefined method in the controller class.
Renamed the method correctly and the request now works, thanks guys for the input.