I have the following links in the header page:

   <li >
      <a  href="{{ route('root') }}">Home</a>
   </li>
   <li >
      <a  href="{{ route('about')}}">About</a>
   </li> 
   <li >
      <a  href="{{ route('contact') }}">Contact</a>
   </li>

And I have the following routes in web.php

Route::get('/',function(){
    return redirect(app()->getLocale());
})->name('root');
Route::group(['prefix'=>'{locale}','middleware'=>'setLocale'],function(){
    Route::get('/',[FrontEndController::class, 'index'])->name('index');

  
});


Route::get('/about',function(){
    return view('about');
})->name('about');
Route::get('/contact',function(){
    return view('contact');
})->name('contact');

the problem is whenever i click a link i go to the index page, in spite of the path in the url is correct.

Note: whenever I remove the Route::group, the links work properly.

please help...

CodePudding user response：

This 'prefix'=>'{locale}' is dynamic, anything you put in the url is going here. You need to rethink about the locale URL.

This will work fine

'prefix'=>'xyz/{locale}'

CodePudding user response：

I solved the problem by adding regular expression for locale:

Route::group(['prefix'=>'{locale}','where' => ['locale' => '[a-zA-Z]{2}'],'middleware'=>'setLocale'],function(){

CodePudding user response：

You need to put all Routes under locale (not only home page), else it will consider that /about & /contact on the URLs are locales also, then redirect you to the home page.

For your example, you should do something like :

Route::get('/',function(){
    return redirect(app()->getLocale());
});
Route::group(['prefix'=>'{locale}','middleware'=>'setLocale'],function(){
    Route::get('/',[FrontEndController::class, 'index'])->name('index');
    Route::get('/about',function(){ return view('about');})->name('about');
    Route::get('/contact',function(){ return view('contact');})->name('contact');
});

No need to name root Route, you should use index for home page.