No! I don't want that middle page and that's what's breaking it! Sorry if I'm confusing this.

On my local environment it just works as you'd expect. On my production machine it throws up the stupid middle page, which breaks the flash message that's being sent through (I'm assuming) because the server is trying to do something stupid rather than letting Laravel handle the redirect?

I don't know how the Laravel Redirect:: actually works - maybe it's a conflict of some sort??

I've just found the solution: http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=11742

There was a bloody space in my routes file that caused it to load incorrectly on the production server. Still not sure why it worked on the dev environment though...