Exclude route from Laravel authentication

Unfortunately you can't exclude register with the current implementation of Route::auth().

You would have to specify all the routes manually so

// Authentication Routes...
$this->get('login', 'Auth\AuthController@showLoginForm');
$this->post('login', 'Auth\AuthController@login');
$this->get('logout', 'Auth\AuthController@logout');

// Password Reset Routes...
$this->get('password/reset/{token?}', 'Auth\PasswordController@showResetForm');
$this->post('password/email', 'Auth\PasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail');
$this->post('password/reset', 'Auth\PasswordController@reset');

I think this is a fairly common thing to want to do it would be nice if there was a parameter to the auth method to say without register maybe you could submit a pull-request to the project.

In the new releases you can do it like so (in your web.php file):

Auth::routes(['register'=>false]);

I just YOLO and change this in the RegisterController.php

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('guest');
}

to this

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('auth');
}

This makes the register page require you to be loged in to reach it.

It's a hack. But it is a good hack.

EDIT: and just add this to your seeder to make life easier:

    $u1= new App\User;
    $u1->name = 'Your name';
    $u1->email = '[email protected]';
    $u1->password = bcrypt('yourPassword');
    $u1->save();