Hello,

I have been for hours on this and cannot find any logic to it....

I have created a registration activation link sent by email, when the user clicks on it he should be redirected to the home page with a success message.

Each time I go to the activation url, I get sent to the /home page.

Here is my code:

web.php

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/


Auth::routes();


Route::get('/', function () { return view('home'); });
//INDIVIDUAL PAGES
Route::get('beforeafter', function () { return view('beforeafter'); });
Route::get('contactus', function () { return view('contactus'); });
Route::get('dirtyzones', function () { return view('dirtyzones'); });
Route::get('joinus', function () { return view('joinus'); });
Route::get('videos', function () { return view('videos'); });
//INDIVIDUAL PAGES


Route::get('home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');
Route::get('auth.register', 'auth.RegisterController@showRegistrationForm');

//ACTIVATE USER
Route::get('activate', 'ActivateUserController@userActivation');

actviateUserController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;


class ActivateUserController extends Controller
{

    public function userActivation(Request $request)
    {
     $email           = $request->input('email');
     $activationtoken = $request->input('activationtoken');

     $findUser  = \App\User::where('email', $email)
                      ->where('activationtoken', $activationtoken)
                      ->get();

     $alreadyActivatedUser  = \App\User::where('email', $email)
                      ->where('isactivated', 1)
                      ->get();

     if(count($findUser) > 0) {

     $updateUser = \App\User::where('activationtoken',$activationtoken)
          ->where('email', $email)
          ->update(['isactivated' => 1, 'activationtoken' => null]);

      return redirect()->route('home')->with('success', 'Your account is now activated!');

      }else{

      return redirect()->route('home')->with('errors', 'Your account has already been activated!');
      }

     }

    }

url to click http://mywebsite.dev/activate?email=xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com&activationtoken=xxxxxx

I really cannot understand why I am being sent to /login each time....

Thank you for your help!