Setting up and configuring the Auth library

To use Laravel's authentication system, we need to make sure it's set up correctly. In this recipe, we'll see a common way to accomplish the setup.

Getting ready

To set up the authentication, we just need to have Laravel installed and a MySQL instance running.

How to do it...

To complete this recipe, follow these steps:

1. Go into your app/config/session.php config file and make sure it's set to use native:

   'driver' => 'native'
   

2. The app/config/auth.php config file defaults should be fine but make sure they are set as follows:

   'driver' => 'eloquent',
   'model' => 'User',
   'table' => 'users',

3. In MySQL, create a database named as authapp and make sure the settings are correct in the app/config/database.php config file. The following are the settings that we'll be using:

   'default' => 'mysql',
   
   'connections' => array(
   
       'mysql' => array(
           'driver'   => 'mysql',
           'host'     => 'localhost',
           'database' => 'authapp...