Laravel auth:api middleware does not work with newly created route files

Question

I have a web application using Laravel 7. On the application, I recently created a new api.php file under a folder called api/v2 (routes/api/v2/api.php< /code>). The problem I am facing is that in the newly created api.php file the 'auth:api' middleware is not working.

I checked the request headers and found that the authorization header for these routes was empty. With the old routing files, everything works fine.

I have registered the new api file in RouteServiceProvider.php as shown below

Route::prefix('api/v2')
            ->middleware('api')
            ->namespace($this->namespace)
            ->group(base_path('routes/api/v2/api.php'));

Except for the authentication issue, all routing is working fine without any issues. Since I cannot call the '$request->user()' method inside the controller.

PS: I am using apache 2.4

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Answer 1

Can you share your route file? Here's what I tried to do that worked equally well:

protected function mapAdminApiRoutes()
{
    Route::prefix('api/admin')
         ->middleware(['api','jwt.verify','role:admin'])
         ->namespace($this->namespace.'\Admin')
         ->group(base_path('routes/admin-api.php'));
}