Move out view variables until after our session has been setup. This was needed so that auth()->user() could be resolved correctly and needed to be done after we have started the session and swapped in the users cookies

app/Http/Middleware/ViewVariables.php

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+<?php
+
+namespace App\Http\Middleware;
+
+use Closure;
+use Illuminate\Http\Request;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Config;
+
+use App\Ldap\User;
+
+/**
+ * This sets up our application session with any required values, ultimately for cache optimisation reasons
+ */
+class ViewVariables
+{
+	/**
+	 * Handle an incoming request.
+	 *
+	 * @param  Request  $request
+	 * @param  Closure  $next
+	 * @return mixed
+	 */
+	public function handle(Request $request,Closure $next): mixed
+	{
+		view()->share('server',Config::get('server'));
+		view()->share('user',auth()->user() ?: new User);
+
+		return $next($request);
+	}
+}