Laravel - Using (:any?) wildcard for ALL routes?

Question

I am having a bit of trouble with the routing.

I\'m working on a CMS, and i need two primary routes. /admin and /(:any). The admin

Answer 1

Laravel 5

This solution works fine on Laravel 5:

Route::get('/admin', function () {

  // url /admin

});

Route::get('/{any}', function ($any) {

  // any other url, subfolders also

})->where('any', '.*');

---

Lumen 5

This is for Lumen instead:

$app->get('/admin', function () use ($app) {
  //
});

$app->get('/{any:.*}', function ($any) use ($app) {
  //
});

Answer 2

Hitting a 404 status seems a bit wrong to me. This can get you in all kind of problems when logging the 404's. I recently bumped into the same wildcard routing problem in Laravel 4 and solved it with the following snippet:

Route::any('{slug}', function($slug)
{
    //do whatever you want with the slug
})->where('slug', '([A-z\d-\/_.]+)?');

This should solve your problem in a controlled way. The regular expression can be simplified to:

'(.*)?'

But you should use this at your own risk.

Edit (addition):

As this overwrites a lot of routes, you should consider wrapping it in an "App::before" statement:

    App::before(function($request) {
            //put your routes here
    });

This way, it will not overwrite custom routes you define later on.