Laravel passport returning Unauthenticated in production but works on localhost

I have a laravel project that works very well on an X server and put that same project (same code) on another Y server, to my surprise the authenticated routes didn’t work, I always get the unauthenticated error, why does this happen?

{
  "message":"Unauthenticated.",
  "success":false,
  "status_code":500
}

I used the commands: – php artisan passport: install – php artisan config: cache – php artisan cache: clear – php artisan key: generate

And yet I still get the unauthenticated error, the token is being passed correctly by the front end, it’s a bearer token, this token is generated when the user logs in using the createToken (‘myApi’) -> accessToken method

public function login(AuthLoginRequest $request)
{
    $user = User::with('role')->where(['email' => $request->email])->get()->first();
    if(!$user){
        abort(404, 'userNotFound');
    }

    if(!password_verify($request->password, $user->password)){
        abort(401, 'invalidCredentials');
    }

    $token = $user->createToken('MyApiToken')->accessToken;
    Access::customCreate($request->all(), $user);

    $response = [
        'id' => $user->id,
        'name' => $user->name,
        'email' => $user->email,
        'profile_image' => $user->profile_image,
        'token' => $token,
        'old_password_changed' => $user->old_password_changed
    ];

    return response()->json($response, 200);
}

The login code works perfectly, it returns me the Bearer token, but after sending any request with this token I get the Unauthenticated error. Where am i going wrong? Since the same code works on another server.

Answer

I have a solution.

What was the problem?

For some reason, the Apache server has modules that ignore the Authorization header, say it’s for security (and I don’t doubt it).

How did I solve it?

I simply disabled the following modules in the Apache settings:

mod_cgid
mod_fcgid
mod_proxy_scgi

And in the httpd.conf file I added the line (Linux/CentOS 7.6):

SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

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