Laravel 4: Stock Auth login won't persist across pages

From all the tutorials, I'm supposed to be able to auth a user then jump to any other page, and the login is persisted. This however, does not work. Custom compiled PHP LAMP stack. App storage is writable. The only difference from the tutorials is that I'm using email instead of username. http://laravelbook.com/laravel-user-authentication/ http://codehappy.daylerees.com/authentication Sessions work, as I was able to store a var to session and read it out on a different page. models/User.php (stock) ``` use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface; use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface; class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface { /** * The database table used by the model. * * @var string */ protected $table = 'users'; /** * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form. * * @var array */ protected $hidden = array('password'); /** * Get the unique identifier for the user. * * @return mixed */ public function getAuthIdentifier() { echo $this->getKey(); return $this->getKey(); } /** * Get the password for the user. * * @return string */ public function getAuthPassword() { return $this->password; } /** * Get the e-mail address where password reminders are sent. * * @return string */ public function getReminderEmail() { return $this->email; } } ``` config/auth.php ``` return array( 'driver' => 'eloquent', 'model' => 'User', 'table' => 'users', 'reminder' => array( 'email' => 'emails.auth.reminder', 'table' => 'password_reminders', 'expire' => 60, ), ); ``` config/session.php ``` return array( 'driver' => 'native', 'lifetime' => 120, 'files' => storage_path().'/sessions', 'connection' => null, 'table' => 'sessions', 'lottery' => array(2, 100), 'cookie' => 'laravel_session', 'path' => '/', 'domain' => null, ); ``` routes.php ``` Route::get('/', array('as' => 'home', function(){ return View::make('home'); })); Route::get('login', array('as' => 'login', function () { return View::make('login'); }))->before('guest'); Route::post('login', function () { $user = array( 'email' => Input::get('email'), 'password' => Input::get('password') ); if (Auth::attempt($user, true)) { /* return Redirect::route('home') ->with('flash_notice', 'You are successfully logged in.'); */ } else { /* // authentication failure! lets go back to the login page return Redirect::route('login') ->with('flash_error', 'Your email/password combination was incorrect.') ->withInput(); */ } // This shows the user as logged in echo (Auth::check()) ? 'Logged in' : 'Not logged in'; }); // This shows the user as not logged in Route::get('test', function () { echo (Auth::check() == true) ? 'Logged in' : 'Not logged in'; }); ``` Table SQL ``` CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` ( `userId` bigint(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `email` varchar(250) DEFAULT NULL, `password` varchar(124) DEFAULT NULL, `name` varchar(250) DEFAULT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, `updated_at` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (`userId`), UNIQUE KEY `email` (`email`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ; INSERT INTO `users` (`userId`, `email`, `password`, `name`, `created_at`, `updated_at`) VALUES (1, 'ben.test@smitty.com', '$2y$10$591gwvQKSGXihKruH1s.weHNM1DR/xzavW46vUuSBxEF7Jk0zZe1G', 'Ben Dauphinee', '2013-08-03 23:25:01', '2013-08-07 01:32:46'), (2, 'jim@dandy.com', NULL, 'Jim Dandy', '2013-08-03 23:25:01', NULL); ``` Resulting Auth::user() info ``` User Object ( [table:protected] => users [hidden:protected] => Array ( [0] => password ) [connection:protected] => [primaryKey:protected] => id [perPage:protected] => 15 [incrementing] => 1 [timestamps] => 1 [attributes:protected] => Array ( [userId] => 1 [email] => bookworm51@hotmail.com [password] => $2y$10$591gwvQKSGXihKruH1s.weHNM1DR/xzavW46vUuSBxEF7Jk0zZe1G [name] => Ben Dauphinee [created_at] => 2013-08-03 20:25:01 [updated_at] => 2013-08-06 22:32:46 ) [original:protected] => Array ( [userId] => 1 [email] => bookworm51@hotmail.com [password] => $2y$10$591gwvQKSGXihKruH1s.weHNM1DR/xzavW46vUuSBxEF7Jk0zZe1G [name] => Ben Dauphinee [created_at] => 2013-08-03 20:25:01 [updated_at] => 2013-08-06 22:32:46 ) [relations:protected] => Array ( ) [visible:protected] => Array ( ) [fillable:protected] => Array ( ) [guarded:protected] => Array ( [0] => * ) [touches:protected] => Array ( ) [with:protected] => Array ( ) [exists] => 1 [softDelete:protected] => ) ```