Laravel Route Troubleshooting

Question

I am trying to figure out why my route is throwing a 404 error rather than providing my image. I am using Spatie media library to serve private images.

I have the following routes web.php:

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

Route::middleware(['auth'])->group(function () {
    Route::get('/images/{$gift}/{$uuid}', 'ImageController@show')->name('images.show');
    Route::resource('games', 'GameController');
    Route::resource('players', 'PlayerController');
});

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

When I do this: {{ route('images.show', [$gift, $gift->getFirstMedia()->uuid]) }} in my blade, the URL is correctly generated. However, clicking on the link results in a 404 error.

The ImageController@show function exists, and currently does nothing more than dd('here'); so I am sure that Laravel is never even attempting to call the function.

Also, there is nothing currently in my laravel.log file. This 404 error does not generate a log entry.

Thank you for your assistance!

Answer 1

When defining route parameters in the URI they are just names, they are not PHP variables:

'/images/{$gift}/{$uuid}' 

Should be:

'images/{gift}/{uuid}'