Are you getting any errors?

Have you checked permissions of the dir?

I would also suggest enabling debug if you already haven't done so and seeing if it throws anything. Alternatively, check the laravel logs inside /app/storage/logs and hunt if there are exceptions being thrown.

Also have you tried stepping into the post method (if possible using a debugger) - or at the very least using basic echo statements just to check upto where you reach before things go wrong? To isolate the statement from where the error is being generated?

thx for your replies, i actually think it is a permission problem (but i'm not sure how to fix this as i've "chmod -R 777 upload" directory already, should i also chmod /public?

debug is on, but it is not returning anything in the browser, also the error messages in my controller are not being returned. the error i am getting is this one (from the log), to do with line 146 in RouteCollection.php, i'm not sure how to decipher this error.

[2014-11-22 23:18:45] production.ERROR: exception 'Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException' in /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/RouteCollection.php:146
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(1021): Illuminate\Routing\RouteCollection->match(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#1 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(989): Illuminate\Routing\Router->findRoute(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#2 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php(968): Illuminate\Routing\Router->dispatchToRoute(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#3 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(738): Illuminate\Routing\Router->dispatch(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#4 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(708): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->dispatch(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#5 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Http/FrameGuard.php(38): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request), 1, true)
#6 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Session/Middleware.php(72): Illuminate\Http\FrameGuard->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request), 1, true)
#7 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cookie/Queue.php(47): Illuminate\Session\Middleware->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request), 1, true)
#8 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Cookie/Guard.php(51): Illuminate\Cookie\Queue->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request), 1, true)
#9 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/stack/builder/src/Stack/StackedHttpKernel.php(23): Illuminate\Cookie\Guard->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request), 1, true)
#10 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(606): Stack\StackedHttpKernel->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#11 /var/www/web/wilcannia/htdocs/public/index.php(49): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->run()
#12 {main} [] []

i'll try to do some die dumps on the controller - see how that goes

zod