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I created a new route in Laravel, but opening the URL in the browser returned a 404 Not Found error.

The route looked correct, but Laravel was not loading it.

Laravel

404 | NOT FOUND

The route was added to web.php, but I was trying to access it using the wrong URL.

I had written:

Route::get('/profile', function () { return 'Profile'; });

But I was opening:

/profile.php

instead of:

/profile

I removed .php from the URL and opened:

/profile

The page worked immediately.

Laravel routes don't work like traditional PHP files.

Always check the exact route path defined in web.php before debugging the application itself.

Laravel route returns 404 even though the route exists