[FIXED] API route gives 404 error: Laravel 5.3

Issue

I was testing my api on godaddy server. But due to some reasons the route is not working and giving 404 error

In order to make sure that the route exists...I tested it like using below code.

$routeCollection = \Route::getRoutes();

foreach ($routeCollection as $value) {
    echo $value->getPath();
}

and you can check the same here as well: http://pankajservers.in/ when u type any thing in user name or password and when u see console...it will show u 404 api error and on local it works perfectly.

JQuery

var data = {
    "EmailAddress": $("input[name='EmailAddress']").val(), 
    "Password":     $("input[name='Password']").val(),
    "_token":       "{{ csrf_token() }}"
};
$.ajax({
    method: "POST",
    url:    "{!! route('AuthenticateUser') !!}",
    cache:  false,
    async:  true,
    data:   data,
    success: function(result) {
        return false;
    },
    error: function(result) {
        return false;
    }
});

HTML

<form method="POST" action="http://pankajservers.in/api/v1/AuthenticateUser" 
    accept-charset="UTF-8" 
    id="loginForm">

    <input name="_token" type="hidden" value="GtSNw3bgzFO6jwi8IVFWnvymd2e8EqIXkAhPtPxb">

    <input class="form-control" name="EmailAddress" type="text">

    <input class="form-control" name="Password" type="password" value="">

    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">

</form>

POST Route

Route::post('/AuthenticateUser', 
    array(
        'uses' =>  'API\UserManagement\Auth\Login\apiLoginController@AuthenticateUser', 
        'as'   =>  'AuthenticateUser'
    )
);

Route Service Provider

Route::group([
    'middleware' => 'api',
    'namespace' => $this->namespace,
    'prefix' => 'api/v1',
], function ($router) {
    require base_path('routes/API/UserManagement/Auth/Login/Login.php');
});

Solution

Looks to me like you have a rewrite issue. I tried going to the route on your site, but I prepended /index.php to the route path. That threw a Laravel method exception, which is expected when you visit a POST-only route. Here, check it out:

http://pankajservers.in/index.php/api/v1/AuthenticateUser

I'm not sure whether you're using Nginx or Apache, but I suspect either the Nginx config or the Apache .htaccess isn't quite right.

EDIT:

Take a look at Laravel's installation documentation. There's a section about rewrite configuration that might give you some insight:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/installation#web-server-configuration

Answered By - Stuart Wagner