Laravel storage link won't work on production

Question

I'm using storage_path to save my images and I symbolic my storage folder to public_html

php artisan storage:link

On the local everything works fine, when I upload an image it will upload in storage folder and link of it will appear in public folder but since I moved to live host and production mode my images will upload in storage folder but nothing in my public_html/storage and I'm not able to get them in my front-end.

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/config/filesystems.php

'public' => [
  'driver' => 'local',
  'root' => storage_path('app/public/'),
  'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
  'visibility' => 'public',
],

.env

FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=public

controller sample

if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
  $image = $request->file('image');
  $filename = 'page' . '-' . time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
  $location = storage_path('app/public/images/' . $filename);
  Image::make($image)->resize(1200, 600)->save($location);
  if(!empty($page->image)){
    Storage::delete('images/' . $page->image);
  }
  $page->image = $filename;            
}

any idea?

You're not using a `public` directory, you're using `public_html`. I don't like this strategy. Make a public directory in `public_html` and set the the `url` to `env('APP_URL').'/public/storage'`. — Ohgodwhy, Jun 06 '18 at 22:10
you need to recreate the sym link on the server, it doesn't transfer with it — ATechGuy, Jun 06 '18 at 22:27
@Ohgodwhy sorry but i'm confused, 1) `Make a public directory in public_html` i do have folder in my `public_html` it's created when i ran artisan command, 2) i did `'url' => env('APP_URL').'/public/storage',` but nothing changed still i can't get my images — mafortis, Jun 06 '18 at 22:30
@ATechGuy how do i do that? i don't have terminal in my host (not sure!) — mafortis, Jun 06 '18 at 22:30
Are you really sure you should be using `$image->getClientOriginalExtension();`? That would allow me to store a .php file on your server and execute any code in it. — sisve, Jun 07 '18 at 03:54
there are a few ways to do it, you can run that same command from a route, you can ftp in and some ftp programs will allow you to make a sym link. Cpanel also would work -> https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9561/29/how-to-create-a-symbolic-link-in-cpanel — ATechGuy, Jun 08 '18 at 14:26

score 36 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 20 '20 at 22:09

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I see that the question has been answered but I want to suggest another solution which i found to be easy. Go to the route folder your-app-folder/routes/web.php and register a new route as follows

Route::get('/linkstorage', function () {
    Artisan::call('storage:link');
});

then go to your website www.example.com/linkstorage and it will take you to a blank page. that's it. The storage folder will be create. I hope it helps someone.

edited Nov 20 '20 at 22:09

Shaiful Islam

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answered Nov 19 '19 at 14:16

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this one is easiest of all, no need to edit path (which may vary in many environment). each time migrate to production server, just need to call this. – Toni Tegar Sahidi Nov 19 '20 at 02:59
Brilliant!! I don't know why this is not in the official Laravel documentation... i think... Thank you. – Adriana Hernández Apr 02 '21 at 11:04
Dosent work for me either.. protocol error – ii iml0sto1 Aug 25 '21 at 09:34
@iiiml0sto1 You may also create a file (eg, `symlink.php`) in your public directory and add the following lines of code ` – Chetam Okafor Aug 28 '21 at 14:44
@iiiml0sto1 Try deleting if there any 'storage' folder that has been created inside public folder while development, and run the above route again. Worked for me that way! – Dilukshan Mahendra Jul 22 '23 at 05:35

score 20 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 15 '21 at 13:01

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Delete folder storage from public and run this command in cron job (one time):

ln -s /home/public_html/storage/app/public /home/dev5/public_html/public/storage

edited Oct 15 '21 at 13:01

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answered Jul 31 '18 at 08:07

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this worked for me, just that if using Laravel Sail you'll likely need to run : ```ln -s /var/www/html/storage/app/public /var/www/html/public/storage``` – BootDev Jul 15 '22 at 10:27
I wrote `Artisan::call('storage:link');` in `routes/web.php` file and run the website then commented this link again in `routes/web.php` file. It solved my issue and created `storage` symbolic link in `public` folder automatically. Thanks a lot. – Kamlesh Dec 13 '22 at 18:20

score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 18:53

I just encountered this problem, and this is how I fixed it, without the need of SSH'ing into the server or running a CronJob:

For Laravel 5+ (Haven't tested with lower version)

You may use Artisan::call() method inside your route/controller to execute artisan commands without using the terminal.

$exitCode = Artisan::call('storage:link', [] );
echo $exitCode; // 0 exit code for no errors.

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 10 '20 at 17:39

I know it is an old thread but we can change it by a little change in Config/filesystem.php

Replace

'links' => [
        public_path('/storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],

with

'links' => [
        base_path('/public_html/storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
    ],

You can check this repository. I have already implemented in it https://github.com/ali-chaudhry/Laravel-7-Boilerplate-with-Spatie-uuid-Unishrp-filemanager-integeration

Yes this works on bigrock server thx aklot man – Vipertecpro Dec 22 '21 at 05:18 — Vipertecpro, Dec 22 '21 at 05:18

score 9 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 10 '21 at 05:20

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What I did to solve this problem:

go inside the project folder using ssh
if public folder not exist, create it. If already created, then make sure the storage symlink you created in development been deleted.
do php artisan storage:link
move the storage symlink that created to the public_html folder
done.

answered Mar 10 '21 at 05:20

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I tried tons of solutions. Only this one worked for me!!! – Dejan Oct 29 '21 at 13:38
I was trying to get the url of storage folder. My code was also proper for getting the storage image. But it was not working. I applied this command and checked then it was working. Thanks. – disha Nov 17 '21 at 06:23
This solution works, don't forget to do this when moving your project to another server. – mustofa27 Apr 02 '23 at 00:36

Alejandro Roa · Answer 6 · 2018-06-06T23:38:52.947

change storage_path settings by public_path

'public' => [
  'driver' => 'local',
  'root' => public_path('app/public_html/'),
  'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
  'visibility' => 'public',
],

if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
  $image = $request->file('image');
  $filename = 'page' . '-' . time() . '.' . $image->getClientOriginalExtension();
  $location = public_path('app/public_html/images/' . $filename);
  Image::make($image)->resize(1200, 600)->save($location);
  if(!empty($page->image)){
    Storage::delete('images/' . $page->image);
  }
  $page->image = $filename;            
}

if that does not work, you can try:

$path = base_path().'/../public_html/images';

Is this the same /public directory where you put your assets, or is it just a magic folder inside /storage ? — Lamar, Jan 12 '21 at 07:22

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '18 at 05:53

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SOLVED

Thanks for all your helps, I tried to run php artisan storage:link on my server and I found out that my server has disabled symlink for security reason.

So I have changed all my image uploading functions to upload images in my public folder instead of storage folder and now everything is working just fine.

answered Jun 09 '18 at 05:53

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Uploading to Public isn't recommended and isn't standard Laravel convention. – ahinkle Oct 14 '20 at 12:48
@ahinkle uploading to public has no issue whatsoever, if your point is that others can load your assets in their urls and using your sources you're always able to limit assets access from other origin with your code or either with help of cloudflare link protection. – mafortis Oct 14 '20 at 12:50
"Storage" is there for a reason. It's the laravel storage system. Given, why the other answer has more upvotes than your selected answer. – ahinkle Oct 14 '20 at 12:52
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yes well it depends on hosting/server limitation we're using as well not everything in our hands + nobody is looking for up votes we're here for solutions. best of luck – mafortis Oct 14 '20 at 12:59
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@ahinkle what do you suggest to do when we can't use symlinks for some reason? – Lamar Jan 12 '21 at 06:56
@Lamar as I've mentioned use public folder (ie. Public_html) upload your files directly there using public_path() – mafortis Jan 12 '21 at 07:10
I agree, just asking @ahinkle in case he has any other suggestion. – Lamar Jan 12 '21 at 07:11
@Lamar LOL sorry, I just saw notification didn't pay attention to mention :) – mafortis Jan 12 '21 at 07:12
So I was wondering when you say public_html, is it a directory under /storage or you mean the assets directory /public? – Lamar Jan 12 '21 at 07:26
@Lamar it's main directory in shared hosts, it's similar as www/html in vps. It's the directory that your index.php is located – mafortis Jan 12 '21 at 08:04

score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 02 '19 at 14:10

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You also can delete your folder storage:link first then open terminal in host and command php artisan storage:link . If your hosting support symlink it will works

answered Aug 02 '19 at 14:10

Nopalm

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That's a good answer, As I see in my server, the symlink was disabled, so I enabled it, then I ran the command storage:link, but nothing, all links were still 404, then I saw this answer, remove the storage folder from PUBLIC, rerun the cmd, and hoop hhh it worked! – Saif Manwill Jun 09 '22 at 15:21

score 3 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 21 '20 at 08:54

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remove storage folder from the public directory then use this route

Route::get("/storage-link", function () {
    $targetFolder = storage_path("app/public");
    $linkFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/storage';
    symlink($targetFolder, $linkFolder);
});

answered Jul 21 '20 at 08:54

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where should i put this code? – aldo Jul 18 '23 at 01:23

score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 02 '21 at 19:18

I had the same issue. The command php artisan storage:link has to be initialized/run again when you start with production on your server. Make sure your webhost provides a SSH access or use a script file with the

Artisan::call('storage:link', []);

command otherwise. I'm using Laravel v8+ and Livewire.

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 07 '22 at 14:10

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This answer is for those who are still facing issue

Step 1

remove the storage link from the public folder.

Step 2

Give permission to the storage folder

chmod -R 775 storage/

Step 3

Create the sym link

php artisan storage:link

answered Aug 07 '22 at 14:10

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score 2 · Answer 12 · answered Jul 12 '20 at 17:30

A solution is to upload files and images directly to public_html folder. change config/filesystems.php like this:

'public' => [
    'driver' => 'local',
    'root' => public_path() . '/../public_html/admin-upload',
    'url' => env('APP_URL').'/admin-upload',
    'visibility' => 'public',
],

score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Feb 07 '22 at 20:00

I had this issue on shared web hosting and also i had no access to terminal. this was the Error

symlink(): No such file or directory

So, Just create a folder named 'public' in my root (same address with app,vendor,config,... folders)

then i did :

    Artisan::call('storage:link');

Because you changed "public" folder's name on production to "public_html" and there is no "public" folder depend on default configs on Laravel 8 remember set all configs on config/filesystem and ... to default.

after all, if the symbolic was created, you can remove 'public_html' and rename "public" folder to "public_html"! That's it

score 0 · Answer 14 · answered Jul 16 '21 at 08:38

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I had the same problem, to solve it, I had to delete the storage of the folder which was already created then I relaunched command. PHP artisan storage:link

answered Jul 16 '21 at 08:38

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score 0 · Answer 15 · answered May 23 '22 at 15:59

If You want to Run php artisan storage:link and Don't Have Terminal Access Then You Can do it by creating a Temporary php file example run.php and Use this Code

<?php
echo exec("php artisan storage:link");

Also Remember if .htaccess is working disable it temporary i know its not good solution but you can use it to resolve your problem

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Jul 24 '23 at 19:14

This is what worked for me: Laravel 9.

My application is in a subdomain.

Deleted storage from the public_html folder

Added a route like this to my web.php (Note the absolute path).

Route::get('/create-symlink', function () {
    symlink('/home/myusername/domains/mysub.domain.com/myappfolder/storage/app/public', '/home/myusername/domains/mysub.domain.com/public_html/storage');
    echo "Symlink Created. Thanks";
});

Went to mysub.domain.com/create-symlink.

That was it!

Mr. Piyush Ghosh · Answer 17 · 2018-10-10T15:22:39.170

Solution: Once your application is uploaded to the live server. Just check that if you are having any storage folder in public directory. Check the folder stucture

Just delete the storage folder from the public directory.

[app/public/storage]

After that from putty software access your main Laravel project folder, and run this command on live.

Remember to configure your .env file APP_URL={your live server ip} and then the below command.

php artisan storage:link

It will create a new storage link in public folder associated with the APP_URL .

Laravel storage link won't work on production

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