TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken - Laravel 5.1

Question

I am building a REST API using Laravel 5.1 and I am getting this error:

TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php line 53:

Answer 1

I was getting the same error, but with all the warnings about overriding CSRF validation, didn't want to change those settings.

I eventually found that my Session Driver in /config/session.php was defaulting to memcached, and since I was on a development server I needed to override the SESSION_DRIVER env variable with 'file' to use the session in /storage/framework/sessions.

/.env

SESSION_DRIVER = file