Laravel Storage symlink

Question

I'm trying to access files that are stored in storage/app/.../.../file.png.

I have created a symlink, linking my storage folder to public/storage.

When I try to access the appropriate file, my server throws a 404, saying file not found. Clearly I'm not accessing it the right way but I dont know what to change.

<img src="{{asset('storage/app/puppy/18/ax2Fk08nyWrV6TwTOnsXNCkNGuIdFebB7TTfPYGb.png')}}" alt="">

Vassily

Did you do php artisan storage:link? – Catena

Answer 1

when you create symlink in laravel then it create symlink of storage/app/public folder to public/storage folder. That means if you want to access any files publicly then place all your files inside storage/app/public folder and access it like this

<img src="{{asset('storage/puppy/18/test.png')}}" alt="">

Here it means the file test.png should be physically at storage/app/public/puppy/18 folder.

Execute php artisan storage:link for creating symlink in laravel

Hope it clear you

Generable

You're amazing. You seem to be the one answering all of my questions the clearest. – Vassily

ah, so glad to help you. happy coding – Generable

I have a laravel 6 app. Everything seems to be in place. But css and js are not loading. When I do ctrl + u I get this i.postimg.cc/Fs58WDJQ/Untitled.jpg and when I Inspect and go to network tab, I see 404 status. I do not know why. This is the github repo I am trying to use github.com/cmate5614530/inventory-management – Salsify

Answer 2

For shared hostings try below solutions

Code:

1) Remove storage folder in public_html/public/storage

2) Create a php file for example symlink.php in public_html folder

3) Add codes to symlink.php file

$targetFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/storage/app/public';
$linkFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/public/storage';
symlink($targetFolder,$linkFolder);
echo 'Symlink process successfully completed';

4) Go to web site example.com/symlink.php

That is all...

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Heterophony

I can't reach the file, it gives 404 LOL – Bentham

Probably something is wrong or your hosting provider don't support symlink – Heterophony

Nothing wrong with my hosting, it's normal that you can't reach files in root directory because we set the root directory for the domain to domain.com/public. My hosting supports symlink and I solved it through SSH – Bentham

The idea worked for me! It did complain about failing to create the symlink, because $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] returned the path including the public folder. I ended up echoing the path and manually entering and altering the variables in the symlink function, which ran successfully! – Obeisance

@Obeisance Would you like to share what you did? – Salsify

@Salsify I first did something like echo getcwd(); to know the path of uploaded files. I then manually entered the paths in the symlink-function, something like symlink('/path/of/existing/folder', '/path/of/preferred/folder);. It's a while back so I'm not sure about the exact things I entered. – Obeisance

Answer 3

Try this one.

<img src="{{asset('puppy/18/ax2Fk08nyWrV6TwTOnsXNCkNGuIdFebB7TTfPYGb.png')}}" alt="">

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