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If your application has a fallback route like Route::get({slug}), call to non-existent assets are processed by Laravel - causing strain on your server. If a lot of assets are not presenent (like on a staging server) this can even bring your application to a grinding halt.

This package contains middleware that aborts the request if it contains certain extensions, that you set in your .env file.

Installation

Step 1: Install the package via composer:

composer require accentinteractive/laravel-ignore-extensions

Step 2: Make sure to register the Middleware.

To use it on all requests, add it as the first option to the web section under $middlewareGroups in file app/Http/Kernel.php.

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        \Accentinteractive\LaravelIgnoreExtensions\Http\Middleware\DoNotProcessExtensions::class,
    ],
];

To use it on specific requests, add it to any group or to the protected $middleware property in file app/Http/Kernel.php.

protected $middleware = [
        \Accentinteractive\LaravelIgnoreExtensions\Http\Middleware\DoNotProcessExtensions::class,
    ];

Step 3: Optionally publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Accentinteractive\LaravelIgnoreExtensions\LaravelIgnoreExtensionsServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Config for this package is stored in config('laravel-ignore-extensions')

Usage

The package uses auto discover. The package uses a middleware class that does the checking and aborting.

Config settings

Setting extensions that should return a 404

You can set the extensions to check for in the published config file, or by setting this values in .env. It defaults to 'jpg|gif|png|jpeg|txt|html|pdf|css|js'

EXTENSIONS_NOT_TO_PROCESS=jpg|gif|png|jpeg|txt|html|pdf|css|js

Testing

vendor/bin/phpunit tests
XDEBUG_MODE=coverage vendor/bin/phpunit tests --coverage-html code-coverage

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email joost@accentinteractive.nl instead of using the issue tracker.

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