Routes with middleware (like auth) inside modulename-routes.php do not work

[doraemonxxx]

Hi,

internachi/modular v1.12.0

I’m currently using Laravel 8.75, where the RouteServiceProvider still exists. I noticed that when I add routes to a module’s route file (for example, app-modules/core/routes/core-routes.php) and group them with middleware such as auth, they don’t work as expected.

Example:

// app-modules/core/routes/core-routes.php
Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
    Route::get('/core', [CoreController::class, 'index']);
});

This route never gets recognized when accessed, but if I manually load the module route files from the RouteServiceProvider like this:

$modules_path = base_path('app-modules');
$modules = glob($modules_path . '/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR);

foreach ($modules as $module_path) {
    $routes_path = $module_path . '/routes';
    if (!is_dir($routes_path)) {
        continue;
    }

    foreach (glob($routes_path . '/*.php') as $route_file) {
        Route::middleware('web')
            ->namespace($this->namespace)
            ->group($route_file);
    }
}

then the routes (including those using auth middleware) start working properly.

So I’m wondering:

• Is it necessary to manually add module route files (like modulename-routes.php) to the RouteServiceProvider for them to work?
• Or should the package handle this automatically?
• The documentation doesn’t seem to mention anything about middleware behavior in module routes, so I’m not sure if I’m missing a configuration step.

Thanks in advance for clarifying.

[jago86]

Not sure, but It seems I faced a similar problem in the past. Could you try adding the web middleware to more than the auth middliware ['web', 'auth']