Laravel "The page has expired due to inactivity" - TokenMismatchException

Laravel creates new session token but uses the old token when using csrf_token(). While validating it uses the newly created session_token() thus gives The page has expired due to inactivity.Please refresh and try again. or TokenMismatchException.

I have cleared all the cache, yet couldn't make it work

composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan route:clear
php artisan view:clear

Before post request, this is the token

accordingly the csrf_token() also uses the same but when the post call is made, the request body uses the above token where the session_token uses the new one (NOTE: Session token does not create new token every time)

Session.php

<?php

return [

    'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'file'),

    'lifetime' => 1200,

    'expire_on_close' => false,


    'encrypt' => false,


    'files' => storage_path('framework/sessions'),


    'connection' => null,


    'table' => 'sessions',


    'store' => null,

    'lottery' => [2, 100],


    'cookie' => 'laravel_session',

    'path' => '/',


    'domain' => env('SESSION_DOMAIN', null ),

    'secure' => env('SESSION_SECURE_COOKIE', false),


    'http_only' => true,

];

storage/framework/session has write permission.

TIA

via Chebli Mohamed