1. After a succesful Auth::attempt a user is supposed to be logged in for the entire session, correct?
2. So in a next request Auth::check() will return true, right?

In my case I have a succesful attempt, then in another page I echo Auth::check() and it returns false.

The session amongst other things contains: ["login_82e5d2c56bdd0811318f0cf078b78bfc"]=> string(20) "timdiels.m@gmail.com"

I'm guessing this is data placed by a succesful Auth::attempt, so why does nor Auth::check, nor Auth::user work?

What could be wrong?

Thanks in advance

I've ran it both on my local dev web server and my production server which I know has worked for other non-laravel sites, but both had the same issue. Settings of production server: http://phpinfo.antagonist.nl/

route.php snippet:

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


Route::get('admin/login', array('before' => 'guest', function() {
    return View::make('login');
}));

Route::post('admin/login', function() {
    if (Auth::attempt(Input::only('email', 'password'))) {
        return 'yes'; // I've seen this returned, so I know it's accepted the user
        return Redirect::intended('admin');
    }
    else {
        return Redirect::to('admin/login');
    }
});

Route::group(array('before' => 'auth|auth.admin'), function()
{ 
    Route::get('admin', function() {
        return View::make('admin');
    });
});

My custom User class:

use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;

class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {

    protected $hidden = array('password');

    public function getAuthIdentifier() {
        return $this->email;
    }

    public function getAuthPassword() {
        return $this->password;
    }

    public function getReminderEmail() {
        return $this->email;
    }

    public static function current_is_admin() {
        return Auth::check() and Auth::user()->email === 'timdiels.m@gmail.com';
    }

}

users table schema:

            Schema::create('users', function($table)
            {
                $table->increments('id');
                $table->string('email', 500);
                $table->string('password', 60);
                $table->timestamps();
            });