Not found route in Laravel 7

Making a website on Laravel 7.28. Added a route to ‘routes/web.php‘:

...
    Route::get('/lk', 'LKIndexController@index')->name('lk');
...

+--------+----------+------------------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+
| Domain | Method   | URI                    | Name                        | Action                                                                 | Middleware |
+--------+----------+------------------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+
|        | GET|HEAD | /                      | generated::0jR7DUWQf5HIAEoc | IlluminateRoutingViewController                                      | web        |
|        | GET|HEAD | home                   | home                        | AppHttpControllersHomeController@index                              | web        |
|        |          |                        |                             |                                                                        | auth       |
|        | GET|HEAD | lk                     | lk                          | AppHttpControllersLKIndexController@index                          | web        |
|        | GET|HEAD | login                  | login                       | AppHttpControllersAuthLoginController@showLoginForm                | web        |

The controller is created in ‘appHttpControllersLKIndexController.php‘. It has a method:

    public function index()
    {
        return view('lk.index');
    }

Created promoter file ‘resourcesviewslkindex.blade.php‘. When I’m trying to follow the route http://127.0.0.1:8000/lk. I get an error:

The requested resource /lk was not found on this server.

If I change the ‘lk’ routes to the ‘account’, for example, then at ‘http://127.0.0.1:8000/account’ I get the page correctly.

And it’s not entirely clear why 404 error doesn’t appear in Laravel view? Please help with this issue.Thank.

Answer

Issue:This error occurs when you create a folder/directory in the public folder with the same name as route slug(lk here).

Why public folder creating this issue: Any object inside public folder can be accessed via url(which is also a route).

If you have a directory(folder) with the same name as route mentioned, it will create 404 because /directory can’t be accessed due to blocking of directory traversal for security reasons but if you use /directory/<a_file_or_image> it will show you the requested object.

When you have a route with same name as directory inside public folder, it is being override by public path. When you change to another route name, it works fine.

Solution: Either change public folder name or change route slug.