REST error NO_API_KEY

[OblivionNW]

I am testing out the REST api on my dev server, and for whatever reason i keep getting the error NO_API_KEY when I am definitely passing it. Here is an example of a request im making in the browser.

http://oblivion-networks.dev/forum/api/core/hello?key=7b225ea3e4782c99a9788fff7af097ba

Can someone please correct me if im wrong but according to the docs, I believe that's correct.

Also, here is my nginx conf.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name oblivion-networks.dev;
    root "/home/vagrant/projects/oblivion-networks/public";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location /forum/api {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/api/index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/oblivion-networks.dev-error.log error;

    sendfile off;

    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/oblivion-networks.dev.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/oblivion-networks.dev.key;
}

My main website is a laravel application, and I have installed the forum in the public/forum directory. The main site is working (outside of ipb, the ipb forum is working as well), the the api seems to give the same error every time. Thanks!

[OblivionNW]

this can be closed, i figured it out. looks like the browser cache just needed cleared, oddly enough