Laravel POST request error 405: MethodNotAllowedHttpException

Question

Using postman on localhost, I'm able to use POST successfully on my API. But when deployed to a server and using postman, I always get the error 405:MethodNotAllowedHttpException, even though the POST request is stated for the route, took our verifycsrf from middleware, and took out the web middleware. Also followed the CORS installation for laravel project by barryvdh.

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions to fix this?

Kernel:

    namespace App\Http;

    use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel as HttpKernel;

    class Kernel extends HttpKernel
    {
        /**
         * The application's global HTTP middleware stack.
         *
         * These middleware are run during every request to your application.
         *
         * @var array
         */
        protected $middleware = [
            \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            'Barryvdh\Cors\HandleCors',

        ];

        /**
         * The application's route middleware groups.
         *
         * @var array
         */
        protected $middlewareGroups = [
            'web' => [
                \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
                \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
                \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
                \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
            ],

            'api' => [
                'throttle:60,1',
            ],

            'admin' => [
                \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
                \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
                \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
                \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
                \App\Http\Middleware\PermissionAdminMiddleware::class,
            ],

        ];

        /**
         * The application's route middleware.
         *
         * These middleware may be assigned to groups or used individually.
         *
         * @var array
         */
        protected $routeMiddleware = [
            'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
            'auth.basic' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
            'guest' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
            'throttle' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::class,
        ];
    }

cors.php

    return [
        /*
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
         | Laravel CORS
         |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
         |
         | allowedOrigins, allowedHeaders and allowedMethods can be set to array('*')
         | to accept any value.
         |
         */
        'supportsCredentials' => false,
        'allowedOrigins' => ['*'],
        'allowedHeaders' => ['*'],
        'allowedMethods' => ['*'],
        'exposedHeaders' => [],
        'maxAge' => 5,
        'hosts' => [],
    ];

app.php includes Barryvdh\Cors\ServiceProvider::class,

routes.php

       Route::group(

                [
                    'prefix' => 'api',
                    'middleware' => ['cors']
                ],

                function()
                {
                    Route::post('dummy', 'API\UsersController@dummy');

                }
    );

UsersController.php

    namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;

    use App\Http\Controllers\FP\UserController;
    use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
    use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\ModelNotFoundException;

    class UsersController extends Controller
    {
        function dummy(Request $request){
          return "test";
        }
    }

Answer 1

Add Accept header in postman to application/json.