Laravel routes not working as expected

Question

I have just created UserController and added a route in the routes.php file:

Route::resource('users', 'UserController');

When I visit laravel.dev/users I expected to see the user index view, but instead I get a 404 error: The requested URL /users was not found on this server.

Here is the output when running: php artisan routes

+--------+------------------------+---------------+------------------------+----------------+---------------+
| Domain | URI                    | Name          | Action                 | Before Filters | After Filters |
+--------+------------------------+---------------+------------------------+----------------+---------------+
|        | GET users              | users.index   | UserController@index   |                |               |
|        | GET users/create       | users.create  | UserController@create  |                |               |
|        | POST users             | users.store   | UserController@store   |                |               |
|        | GET users/{users}      | users.show    | UserController@show    |                |               |
|        | GET users/{users}/edit | users.edit    | UserController@edit    |                |               |
|        | PUT users/{users}      | users.update  | UserController@update  |                |               |
|        | PATCH users/{users}    |               | UserController@update  |                |               |
|        | DELETE users/{users}   | users.destroy | UserController@destroy |                |               |
|        | GET /                  |               | Closure                |                |               |
+--------+------------------------+---------------+------------------------+----------------+---------------+

What have I done wrong?

Answer 1

You still need a matching method in the User controller for that route (matches the "action"), if you don't have one:

public function index() {
  return "Hello world!";
}

Answer 2

I think there must be some other routes.php file from where your application is running. Can you check it in your application?

Answer 3

Assuming that your UserController is error free,

1) Make sure that the url property is configured correctly in app/config/app.php

2) Check whether your .htaccess file is working correctly.

3) Make a composer dump-autoload --optimize