title: Single route giving a 403 Forbidden error in Laravel 4
body: <p>I have been trying to figure out why this is happening for the past couple of days with no success. I found some other questions dealing with 403 errors while routing in Laravel but none pertaining to a problem with a single route. Somewhat new to Laravel and web development, so might be missing something obvious, but here goes: </p>
  
  <p>So the routes in my project all work except for one, that route being {mywebsite}/admin, which gives me a 403 error. It <em>does</em> work when I go to {mywebsite}/index.php/admin. What I don't understand is why none of my other routes have the same problem. For example, {mywebsite}/test works and {mywebsite}/admin/categories works. This is literally the only route that does not work. Also worth noting is that the same issue comes up when trying to access it on both my local server and my production server (Digital Ocean with Laravel Forge).</p>
  
  <p>Here is my routes.php file: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Route::get('/', function()
  {
      return View::make('hello'); //works
  });
  
  Route::get('/admin', function()
  {
      return "admin"; //403 error
  });
  
  Route::get('/test', function()
  {
      return "test"; //works
  });
  
  
  //these all work
  Route::get('/admin/dashboard', 'TaskCategoriesController@showAdmin');
  
  // all category routes
  Route::get('/admin/categories/', 'TaskCategoriesController@show');
  Route::get('/admin/categories/{id}/edit', 'TaskCategoriesController@edit');
  Route::post('/admin/categories/{id}/edit/', array('uses' =&gt;    'TaskCategoriesController@update'));
  Route::post('/admin/categories/create/{id}', array('uses' =&gt; 'TaskCategoriesController@create'));
  Route::get('/admin/categories/delete/{id}', array('uses' =&gt; 'TaskCategoriesController@delete'));
  
  Route::get('/admin/categories/create', function()
  {
      return View::make('CreateCategory');
  });
  
  // all form routes
  Route::get('/admin/forms/{id}/edit', 'TaskFormsController@edit');
  Route::post('/admin/forms/{id}', 'TaskFormsController@create');
  Route::post('/admin/forms/{id}/submit', 'OrdersController@submitOrder');
  Route::get('/admin/forms/{id}/add', 'TaskFormsController@addFormElement');
  Route::get('/admin/forms/{id}/edit/{elementId}', 'TaskFormsController@editFormElement');
  Route::get('/admin/forms/{id}/delete/{elementId}', 'TaskFormsController@deleteFormElement');
  Route::post('/admin/forms/{id}/saveUpdates/{tid}', 'TaskFormsController@updateFormElement');
  
  
  //time table routes
  Route::post('/admin/categories/{id}/timetable/{date}', array('uses' =&gt; 'TimeTableController@updateTimetable'));
  Route::get('/admin/categories/{id}/timetable', array('uses' =&gt; 'TimeTableController@timetable'));
  Route::get('/admin/categories/{id}/timetable/{date}', array('uses' =&gt; 'TimeTableController@editWeekTable'));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is my .htaccess file: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
      &lt;IfModule mod_negotiation.c&gt;
          Options -MultiViews
      &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
      RewriteEngine On
  
      # Redirect Trailing Slashes...
      RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
  
      # Handle Front Controller...
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any clue why this might be happening? </p>