I have noticed that when I run migrations and seeds on an SQLite database vs a MySQL database, pagination works just fine. Even pulling a fresh version of my code from git and migrating into a fresh MySQL database, pagination doesn't work.

I'm facing the same issue with a manually created paginator. It always returns first page's data.

See if this helps, it works. http://laravel.io/forum/11-13-2014-laravel-5-pagination

I've gone through and gotten pagination working fairly trivially simple applications (https://github.com/dydx/laravel-pagination-stuff), and it works with both SQLite and MariaDB/MySQL for that application, but not for the application I started this post about. I can't get pagination to work for that application, even though it is quite literally just a call to App\WorkOrder::paginate(5) and then on my view a call to $work_orders->render().

I see the links, they appear fine. I'm not making a "custom paginator" in any way... it just doesn't work, and I don't understand why.

It has to be something with the URL.

local.dev/page?=3

has proper pagination

local.dev/test/?page=3

does not.