404: file not found. Laravel failed to load home.blade.php file

I’m new to the Laravel framework, so I’m following this tutorial, cloning instagram. After designing the front end, all was going well, until I started working with php artisan. I have created the user and profile database, migrated them successfully, and linked them in a one-to-one relationship.

But, after this, trying to login, and navigate to home, I’m getting a

404, not found error

I can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong.

profileController:

<?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class profilesController extends Controller
{
     public function index($user)
    {
        $user = AppUser::find($user);
        return view('home', [
            'user' => $user,
        ]);
    }
}

homeController:

<?php

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }

    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return IlluminateContractsSupportRenderable
     */       
}

web.php:

  Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/profile/{user}', 'profilesController@index')->name('profile.show');

profile created via php artisan

$profile->user
=> AppUser {#2975
     id: "1",
     name: "Sofolahan Eniola Ademola",
     email: "[e-mail]",
     username: "usertesst",
     email_verified_at: null,
     created_at: "2019-07-27 16:01:45",
     updated_at: "2019-07-27 16:01:45",
   }
>>> $profile
=> Appprofile {#2965
     title: "cool stuff",
     description: "desc stuff",
     user_id: 1,
     updated_at: "2019-07-27 16:04:45",
     created_at: "2019-07-27 16:04:45",
     id: 1,
     user: AppUser {#2975
       id: "1",
       name: "Sofolahan Eniola Ademola",
       email: "[e-mail]",
       username: "usertesst",
       email_verified_at: null,
       created_at: "2019-07-27 16:01:45",
       updated_at: "2019-07-27 16:01:45",
     },
   }

Am I missing something?

Answer

By default, after a successful login, it directs you to ‘/home’ which is missing in your web route.

Route::get('/home', homeController@index')

You can replace homeController with the name of your controller and index with this method.