You can not do it very simple from laravel 5.3. You have to edit your kernel.php and change protected $middleware = [] as following.
protected $middleware = [
IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareCheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,
];
protected $middlewareGroups = [
‘web’ => [
AppHttpMiddlewareEncryptCookies::class,
IlluminateCookieMiddlewareAddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
AppHttpMiddlewareVerifyCsrfToken::class,
IlluminateRoutingMiddlewareSubstituteBindings::class,
],
‘api’ => [
‘throttle:60,1’,
‘bindings’,
],
];
just remove these two line from middlewaregroups and add to middleware.
IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,