Shared Hosting Laravel 8 Hosting problem: Symlink is not working - laravel

Question

I need the deploy my laravel project to the web. With this introduction But the hosting provider is Doesn't allow me to use a symbolic link(symlink), I called customer service, and told me blocked for security reasons.
So, since I do not use symbolic links, there are big problems in uploading images and deploying them.
Is there a way to do deployment my app?

Answer 1

Change your disk configurations in the config/filesystems.php to read and write to public folder via public_path() function.
If you're deploying over a shared host, you probably have another folder like public_html as your public folder which is not included in your source. Try to link to the public_html using dots ../../public_html/
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
// 'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'root' => public_path(),
'url' => env('APP_URL'),
'visibility' => 'public',
],
'photos' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => public_path('photos'),
'url' => env('APP_URL') . '/photos',
'visibility' => 'public',
],

Answer 2

Another way is just create something like symlink using php, example you can create a route like below:
Route::get(
'/storage/{file}',
function ($file) {
$filepath = "../storage/app/public/".$file;
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Type: ".mime_content_type($filepath));
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filepath));
readfile($filepath);
die();
}
);
Maybe not best practice, but it will solve your problem. It's will do same as symlink.