Share Laravel 5 session and check authentication from external projects

gistfile1.php

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sharing Laravel's session and checking authentication
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Use the following code in any CMS (WordPress, Joomla, etc), filemanager (CKFinder, 
| KCFinder, simogeos's Filemanager, etc), or any other non-Laravel project to boot into 
| the Laravel framework, with session support, and check if the user is authenticated.
|
| The following code is tested with Laravel 5
|
| Last update: 2015-03-17
|
*/

require '/path/to/laravel/bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once '/path/to/laravel/bootstrap/app.php';

$kernel = $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel');
$response = $kernel->handle(
	$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);

$isAuthorized = Auth::check();

So if I understand this, you are checking if the user is authenticated in Laravel, not in the Wordpress install, Joomla, or other CMS?

Not sure why but this is only working for me on the base wordpress url. On example.com I can get the full Authorized Laravel user but if I go to example.com/directory/ it returns null.