Laravel route to same depth - php

Question

I have a site in a subfolder, example.com/mysite. I have a route there, login, which is accessed via example.com/mysite/login. This is the route:
Route::group(array('domain' => 'example.com'), function()
{
Route::get('/', function()
{
return Redirect::to('login');
});
Route::get('/login/', array('as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'AccountController#login'));
})
The problem is, when I have a link in my view like so:
<a href='{{{ route('login') }}}'>Login page</a>
It displays the path example.com/login instead of example.com/mysite/login. It think this has something to do with the domain group, but I don't know how to tell it to keep the current subdirectory. I've tried changing the domain to example.com/mysite in the group command, but that just causes an error. The redirection to login works, but how do I get the correct link in the view?

Answer 1

Turns out, this is because when it generates the route, it uses the domain provided in the group instead of getting it from the url. It can be overriden though, by specifying an empty domain in the individual route match, like so:
Route::get('/login/', array('as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'AccountController#login', 'domain' => ''));
This will allow it to ignore the domain specified in the group function. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, you need to do this for all of them.

Answer 2

Your routes do not follow a relative path. Even if you are in example.com/mysite, your route is made within the example.com domain.
Your redirect redirects you to example.com/login.
This is where your route is. Your redirect is redirecting to 'login'.
You named your route vendor_login. Therefore within the view, you have to write <a href='{{{ route('vendor_login') }}}'> to access your correct route.
Still, going to example.com/mysite/login will not show you your login page. It is available via example.com/login.
If you want to be available via example.com/mysite/login, use the following code.
Route::group(array('domain' => 'example.com'), function()
{
Route::get('/', function()
{
return Redirect::route('vendor_login');
});
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'mysite'), function()
{
Route::get('/login/', array('as' => 'vendor_login', 'uses' => 'AccountController#login'));
});
});
The difference here is that the login route is now placed within a group that uses the 'mysite' prefix. In this case, your login route is available via example.com/mysite/login.
The redirect is changed from Redirect::to('login') (which redirected to example.com/login, to Redirect::route('vendor_login') which redirects to the named route vendor_login, independent of its path.
EDIT:
Routes are absolute. If you want to make a link that is relative to the same depth, in your view just do Login. But this is not recommended. In that case you can not show the same view/link from routes with a different depth. Instead use named routes (as you did) which give you the most flexibility. Just put in your view the correct name vendor_login and change your Redirect::to to Redirect::route('vendor_login')
Hope this helps