I have an existing laravel project that I wrote on a Windows PC, I tried to copy the project to a MacBook and it runs well, but the problem is the storage:link doesn't work, all the picture I save in the storage folder can't be accessed through the app, I tried to enter the link of the files manually on the browser and it's still doesn't work.
I also checked the folder and the files, they still exist.
I'm still new in using Mac, does anyone have a solution?
I also tried to upload my laravel project to a shared hosting without SSH access, how can I make a storage link?
Thanks in advance.
I am not sure, maybe this is for wrong file locations. well, if you can find the folders you want to link you can run a raw command anyway
ln -s /project_folder/storage/app/public /project_folder/public/storage
Once you move the project to another system or directory , you need to recreate the symlink. Re run the command
php artisan storage:link
I'm using a shared hosting service and move everything in laravel's public directory into hosting's public_html and move everything beside laravel's public directory into a new folder I generate in the same directory as the public_html directory such as below:
root / parent directory
public_html
laravel
Make a file in public folder named symlink.php which contains this code:
<?php
$targetFolder = '../laravel/storage/app/public';
$linkFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/storage';
if(symlink($targetFolder,$linkFolder)){
echo 'Symlink completed';
} else {
echo 'Symlink Failed';
}
?>
you can specify the $targetFolder variable to your storage/app/public path like above.
afterwards call the file through your laravel link.
eg:
http://mylaravel-example.com/symlink.php
nb : the file's name is not a fixity, you can specify it as you desired.
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I am trying to access my image files stored inside storage/app/public/subfolder/ using symlink inside /public folder in my Laravel app. Everything works fine in my local setup and also in Jelastic Apache deployment, but it doesn't seem to work in CPanel with LiteSpeed. I am trying to access the files using the link /storage/subfolder/image.png but it is not accessible on CPanel deployment.
I tried creating and deleting storage symlink hundreds of times, but it didn't work. Below are few things I tried:
Deleting and creating symlink again and again using php artisan storage:link command.
Creating symlink using linux command ln -s ../storage/app/public storage inside public folder.
Running Artisan::call('storage:link') using a web route entry.
Redeploying and reconfiguring the app several times and creating storage symlink.
In all of these failed attempts I can verify that storage symlink is created every time inside public folder. I can navigate and view files from public/storage/ folder using CPanel terminal without any issues but can't access them in the deployed app.
I have exact same configuration in Jelastic Apache deployment and in my local deployment and there it is working without any issues.
UPDATE:
Additionally, I tried creating a storage directly manually inside public folder with the same structure and it worked. But symlink doesn't work.
UPDATE 2:
I found below error log while checking error logs from CPanel.
2022-11-06 05:07:07.342556 [ERROR] [1669834] [T0] [HTAccess] Failed to open [/home/user/my-project/public/storage/subfolder/.htaccess]: Permission denied
There is no .htaccess inside subfolder but it is there in my public folder.
What might be the issue?
After making linking you storage to your public path using storage:link you can access your folder :
'Storage_path('subfolder/image.png');'
After a long search, I finally found the cause.
Somehow the storage/app/public directory didn't have sufficient permissions. So, I gave permissions to that public folder recursively using chmod and everything works fine now.
The symlink was working fine but it was not working due to permission issues in the parent folder.
This is a bit weird as I have never manually altered permissions in any Laravel folders in any of my other deployments.
Using a windows server, I have a laravel installation.
I have a storage folder that I have created on 'root/storage'
When I save images from the website, the images are stored in this folder.
I use this to save the files:
Storage::disk('local')->put('course_badges/'.$pre_string . $request->file('badge')->getClientOriginalName(), File::get($request->file('badge')));
When I try to reference the file like so 'https://app.com/storage/file_name.jpg', laravel gives me a 'Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.' error.
However is I copy the files to '/public/storage/'
The image is then referenced correctly.
I have run the: php artisan symlink function.
I have tried to run ln -s ../storage/ command in powershell, but windows tells me that ln is not recognized.
What I am trying to achieve is to have my files saved in the root/storage folder (and sub folders)
and to reference them using https:app.nam/storage/file
I had simmilar issue
as u mentioned file is stored in root/storage means problem with symlink between root/storage to public/storage to fix this
remove storage folder from public dir
Note:- keep backup first
then run php artisan storage:link
it should work
i am using hostinger to deploy my laravel project i uploaded all the files into the public_html folder and then did all the necessary changes needed for the application to work.The app seems to work pretty fine but when an user tries to upload a image the image gets stored in the storage/app/public/avatar folder and on public/storage/avatar folder as i have used symlink to link the two folders but yet the photos cannot be viewed by the users. this is how i recall my photo
div class="profile-avatar" style="width: 400px;height:500px; border-radius: 0%;background-image: url('#if(Auth::user()->avatar == "avatar.png") {{ url("/imgs/".Auth::user()->avatar) }} #else {{ url("/storage/avatar/".Auth::user()->avatar) }} #endif');"
please help me to solve this issue
As you have no ssh access to run some command in shell,
try this when uploading the image
1. Store image here: public_path() . 'img/filename.jpg'*
2. Save the 'img/filename.jpg' in database
3. Generate the image URL with url('img/filename.jpg')
// Output http://www.your-domain.com/img/filename.jpg
If you can manage shell access then try this:
Remove your current app/public/avatar directory, which is created inside of storage folder.
Also remove your storage folder inside public !
After that via ssh cli, cd to your laravel project folder and create a symbolic link via following command
ln -sr storage public/storage
Hopefully it will solve your issue. I had same issue and mine got fixed via second method ( I had ssh access to my server ).
The default for uploaded images appears to be /storage/app/public/profiles/, but the frontend generated URL of /storage/profiles/image isn't being found.
I tried to find any sort of routing for that directory and haven't been able to do so. Any help would be appreciated.
You must link to the storage directory. From the documentation:
Once Spark is installed, you should link the public/storage directory to your storage/app/public directory. Otherwise, user profile photos stored on the local disk will not be available
And the relevant code:
ln -s /path/to/storage/app/public /path/to/public/storage
Just delete the storage folder inside public folder and run the command using absolute paths(from root folder).
I have created a laravel 5.0 project with php artisan serve, now i need to know how to run laravel 5.0 project run without start php artisan serve, i have already browse lot of websites no one help me..
You need to change "server.php" to "index.php" then copy ".htaccess" from public to root directory.
See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30053989/3948755
Laravel sever Folder is "public". There is an index.php so you can run you project from there.
Suppose if you using UbuntuOS then you have to create your local server in public directory. Suppose your folder name is laravel_test then go in that directory and run some thing like this
php -S localhost:8000 -t public
If you using windows then access public folder from URL.
localhost/laravel/public
Actually it's bad practise to access folder from URL but for local its good. You also can go with host entry. Just make sure that your target folder is "public" directory.
Normally you would have WAMP/XAMPP installed. You can access Laravel project like below
localhost/laravel/public
But this is not recommended. You should create Virtual host for example
laravel.local that pints to server-root/laravel/public.
this is how you create virtual host.
Or even better go for a Laravel Homestead .
How is your .htaccess file configured?
Try with localhost/laravel/public/index.php
Use http://localhost/projectName/public
It will be work. but in case if you have another Route and you can not access that Route and get the error like " Page Not Found " then please use the following command
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Now open the http://localhost/projectName/public/yourRoute
This is a little late but still applicable, what I like to do (using ubuntu 14.x+) is put my laravel project (let's say Project1) in my var directory, so it would be in /var/Project1, then symlink the public folder to somewhere in /var/www(+/html depending on apache version).
Symlink can be done something like this:
ln -s /var/Project1/public /var/www/html
This keeps your internal files off the grid so to speak, this is untested so if I've missed anything just comment and I will amend this post.
EDIT:
Obviously if your http root is /var/www/html you can put your project in /var/www/Project1
If you have access to xampp or wampp on your operating system you can more or less configure your virtual host like in the instruction below:
https://bestin-it.com/creating-virtualhost-on-your-local-computer-to-start-simple-index-php/
This instruction shows how to run it locally on your PC, but it works generally the same on any hosting portals. In most case in payed portals you have any web panels to configure your public folder that reference to /public folder in laravel folder's structure.