Laravel 5.2: Auth::logout() is not working

Question

I'm building a very simple app in Laravel 5.2, but when using AuthController's action to log out, it just simply doesn't work. I have a nav bar which checks for Auth::check() and it doesn't change after calling the log out action.

I have this route inside the routes.php file:

Route::get('users/logout', 'Auth\AuthController@getLogout');

and it's outside the

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () statement.

I did also try to add the follow action at the end of the AuthController.php file.

public function getLogout() 
{
    $this->auth->logout();
    Session::flush();
    return redirect('/');
}

Do you have any ideas?

EDIT 1

If I clear Google's Chrome cache, it works.

Solution 1

I also had similar problem in Laravel 5.2. You should change your route to

Route::get('auth/logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout');

or in AuthController constructor add

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => ['logout', 'getLogout']]);
}

That worked for me.

Solution 2

use below code

Auth::logout();

or

auth()->logout();

Solution 3

The problem is from the 'guest' middleware in the AuthController constructor. It should be changed from $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']); to $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'getLogout']);

If you check the kernel file, you can see that your guest middleware point to \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class

This middleware checks if the user is authenticated and redirects the user to the root page if authenticated but lets the user carry out an action if not authenticated. By using $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'getLogout']); , the middleware will not be applied when the getLogout function is called, thereby making it possible for authenticated users to make use of it.

N/B: As in the original answer, you can change getLogout to logout since the getLogout method simply returns the logout method in laravel's implementation.

Solution 4

In Http->Middleware->Authenticate.php change login in else statement to /

return redirect()->guest('/');

and define following route in routes.php

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('login');
});

for logout call following function:

public function getlogout(){
    \Auth::logout();
    return redirect('/home');
}

Important: redirect to /home instead of / that first calls $this->middleware('auth'); and then in middleware redirect to /

Solution 5

This should be the content of your constructor in AuthController

$this->middleware('web');
$this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);

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Comments

[Felipe Peña]

Thanks. I will check this later and if it works, I will accept it as the answer.

[tenub]

@Aztecnologic This fixed my issue. Don't know why we have to write a custom logout method in Laravel 5.2 though—I didn't have to in 5.1. Oh well.

[lorey]

Thanks. Solved my problem, too. Any explanation why? Seems to be linked to updating from 5.1 to 5.2 while using the old laravel/laravel boilerplate repository.

[Tayyab Hussain]

In addition to above answer, You can customize redirection after logging out by adding below code in AuthController protected $redirectAfterLogout = 'auth/login';

[Mouagip]

Adding getLogout to the except array did the trick for me.