SOLVED Laravel website returns "Error 404" for GET requests - laravel

Question

So I got a template of a Flutter app that retrieves all its data from a website using HTTP get requests.
I have the following method that gets the list of resturaunts:
Future<Stream<Restaurant>> getNearRestaurants(LocationData myLocation, LocationData areaLocation) async {
String _nearParams = '';
String _orderLimitParam = '';
if (myLocation != null && areaLocation != null) {
_orderLimitParam = 'orderBy=area&limit=5';
_nearParams = '&myLon=${myLocation.longitude}&myLat=${myLocation.latitude}&areaLon=${areaLocation.longitude}&areaLat=${areaLocation.latitude}';
}
final String url = '${GlobalConfiguration().getString('api_base_url')}restaurants?$_nearParams&$_orderLimitParam';
final client = new http.Client();
final streamedRest = await client.send(http.Request('get', Uri.parse(url)));
return streamedRest.stream.transform(utf8.decoder).transform(json.decoder).map((data) => Helper.getData(data)).expand((data) => (data as List)).map((data) {
return Restaurant.fromJSON(data);
});
}
However when I swap the template's url variable for my own website, the app gets stuck and streamRest returns with an error 404 page.
Tried Solutions:
I surrounded it with a try/catch block and it gave me no exceptions.
I also installed postman and checked my website with the GET statement for the same list of restaurants I try to retrieve in the flutter code posted above and see this: Postman GET screenshot
Its as if my website cannot route to the specific pages in my API folder. But they are all defined in api.php.
Update 1:
My web.php looks like this https://pastebin.com/QRG300uL. It seems to be similar to what was suggested below
Update 2:
I ran php artisan route::list and it showed that all the routes seem to be there:
| | POST | api/restaurant_reviews | restaurant_reviews.store | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#store | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurant_reviews | restaurant_reviews.index | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#index | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurant_reviews/create | restaurant_reviews.create | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#create | api |
| | DELETE | api/restaurant_reviews/{restaurant_review} | restaurant_reviews.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#destroy | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurant_reviews/{restaurant_review} | restaurant_reviews.show | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#show | api |
| | PUT|PATCH | api/restaurant_reviews/{restaurant_review} | restaurant_reviews.update | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#update | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurant_reviews/{restaurant_review}/edit | restaurant_reviews.edit | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantReviewAPIController#edit | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurants | restaurants.index | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#index | api |
| | POST | api/restaurants | restaurants.store | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#store | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurants/create | restaurants.create | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#create | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurants/{restaurant} | restaurants.show | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#show | api |
| | DELETE | api/restaurants/{restaurant} | restaurants.destroy | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#destroy | api |
| | PUT|PATCH | api/restaurants/{restaurant} | restaurants.update | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#update | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/restaurants/{restaurant}/edit | restaurants.edit | App\Http\Controllers\API\RestaurantAPIController#edit | api |
| | POST | api/send_reset_link_email | | App\Http\Controllers\API\UserAPIController#sendResetLinkEmail | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/settings | | App\Http\Controllers\API\UserAPIController#settings | api |
Solution:
This worked for me after changing alot of things, I changed my GET request url from "www.domain.com/api/resturants" to "www.domain.com/public/api/resturants"

Answer 1

Well i don't know about your flutter code for i use different methods in retrieving data from api but about the routes i suggest you do like me
in web.php the route file
//Api routes
Route::get('/company/api/fetch', 'ApiController#fetch_companies');
my api controller
public function fetch_companies()
{
$companies = Companies::all();
return response()->json($companies);
}
this way you will get the data passed to the route /company/api/fetch (you can modify that as you want) and when a get request enter this page it will return json
and for the request handling in flutter side i suggest you make your functions and classes as it is in the documentations
Note: that the flutter solution that i suggested may not work with your case for you are using Stream which is different than this type of requests because this type runs only ones while the Stream runs many times and gets data every time it gets new data from the server