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();

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.