Symlink storage link from Laravel doesn't work as expected

Question

I'm uploading an image with laravel using this code:

$logoPath = $request->file('logo')->store('uploads/clients');

It works fine, the file is uploaded to storage/app/uploads/clients/ .

Then, I run the command php artisan storage:link to create the symlink in public and its created successfully. The problem is that this symlink shows only the files in "storage/app/public" but, as i said, my images are being saved in storage/app/uploads/clients .

I already did this process in others projects and it works fine, I don't really know what I did different this time.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It seems you are using the default disk which is local that stores the files in storage/app directory as configured in config/filesystems.php , but what you want is public disk which stores the files in storage/app/public that is linked to the public directory by running php artisan storage:link .

So here are some solutions:

• Specify which disk you want to use:

   $request()->file('logo')->store('uploads/clients', ['disk' => 'public']);

OR

• Create a new disk in config/filesystems.php and link it with your uploads/clients then change the default FILESYSTEM_DRIVER in config/filesystems.php to the new disk.

OR

• Change the default FILESYSTEM_DRIVER to public in config/filesystems.php .