Laravel Store function ignored on production server - laravel

Question

I'm making a website that 100% works locally but when uploaded to my server everything works except the Store function(/route) for pages.
Expected behaviour when I click the Add button: PageController#store to be executed.
What happens when I click the Add button locally: PageController#store gets executed.
What actually happens when I click the Add button on my server: It just seems to go to pages.index without executing PageController#store.
Let's say I put return "test"; in the Store function instead of the storing logic and change StoreRequest to Request, it still just goes to pages.index without showing the text test even though this also does work locally.
Why is this happening? All the code it the same, and all the other routes and functions work perfectly fine. Everything works except saving/storing.
Routes:
Auth::routes();
Route::get('/', 'HomeController#welcome')->name('welcome');
Route::get('/home', 'HomeController#index')->name('home');
Route::resource('pages', 'PageController');
PageController:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Http\Requests\StorePage;
use App\Http\Requests\UpdatePage;
use App\Page;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;
class PageController extends Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('auth');
}
public function index()
{
$data = [
'pages' => Page::all()
];
return view('pages.index')->with($data);
}
public function create()
{
return view('pages.create');
}
public function store(StorePage $request)
{
$page = new Page();
$page->fill($request->all());
$page->save();
return Redirect::route('pages.index');
}
public function edit(Page $page)
{
$data = [
'page' => $page
];
return view('pages.edit')->with($data);
}
public function update(UpdatePage $request, Page $page)
{
$page->fill($request->all());
$page->save();
return Redirect::route('pages.index');
}
public function destroy(Page $page)
{
$page->delete();
return Redirect::route("pages.index");
}
}
Form:
{{Form::open(array('route' => array('pages.store')))}}
#method('POST')
#csrf
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
{{ Form::label('title', 'Title:') }}
{{ Form::text('title', null, array('class' => 'form-control '.($errors->has('title') ? ' is-invalid' : ''),'required')) }}
#if ($errors->has('title'))
<small class="text-danger" role="alert">
<strong>{{ $errors->first('title') }}</strong>
</small>
#endif
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
{{ Form::label('identifier', 'Identifier:') }}
{{ Form::text('identifier', null, array('class' => 'form-control '.($errors->has('identifier') ? ' is-invalid' : ''),'required')) }}
#if ($errors->has('identifier'))
<small class="text-danger" role="alert">
<strong>{{ $errors->first('identifier') }}</strong>
</small>
#endif
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
{{ Form::label('content', 'Content:') }}
{{ Form::textarea('content', null, array('class' => 'form-control '.($errors->has('content') ? ' is-invalid' : ''),'required')) }}
#if ($errors->has('content'))
<small class="text-danger" role="alert">
<strong>{{ $errors->first('content') }}</strong>
</small>
#endif
</div>
</div>
<br />
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Add</button>
{{Form::close()}}

Answer 1

Some files are cached in the server, so you may not be seeing the effect of your application file changes all the time.
Try clearing and reloading your application and route caches by running these commands on the server cli in order:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan route:cache
php artisan config:cache
composer dump-autoload

Answer 2

After a bit of digging I saw that the request returned 403 Forbidden. I had a folder called 'pages' which is exactly where the POST request was going: /pages/. Renaming this folder fixed my problem.