How to create a symlink for image folders in Laravel 5.4

Asked Mar 15 '18 at 08:55

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I have created an application and deployed in a server. I also have a functionality of generating QR codes and save them into storage symlink.

Here's my server scaffolding:

In a local directory I have all source Laravel code. Other files are from public directory.

How to create a symlink in the server folder? What's the workaround?

Here's the example of doing via calling a PHP script:

symlink('/home/local/storage/app/public', 'storage');

edited Mar 15 '18 at 09:01

asked Mar 15 '18 at 08:55

Windows server? Good luck (I mean it). – Kyslik Mar 15 '18 at 10:17
@Kyslik nope, my local machine is on Windows, but the server is on Linux :) Do u have any idea? – Камилов Тимур Mar 15 '18 at 10:21
Shared hosting? Do you have ssh access? if so just google around https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1951742/how-to-symlink-a-file-in-linux – Kyslik Mar 15 '18 at 10:23
@Kyslik `ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink` - in here from where I should type a path? from the root directory of server or what? – Камилов Тимур Mar 15 '18 at 10:27
Well since you are using absolute paths (path starts with `/`) you can type it from wherever, just use correct user eg (apache/nginx user). Also there is a command within artisan to make storage link - `artisan storage:link`, not sure if you need that. – Kyslik Mar 15 '18 at 10:43
@Kyslik on my local machine I used `artisan` command to create a `symlink` and it is all perfect. I have some troubles with the server. – Камилов Тимур Mar 15 '18 at 10:46
@Kyslik What if I don't have ssh access? How should I solve the problem? – Камилов Тимур Mar 15 '18 at 10:49

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