Viewing Image with Laravel backend with Apache

Question

I have images stored in my storage/app/images folder.

However, I cannot access or view any of these images on localhost without a 404 header.

I'm using Apache with the following htaccess to my Laravel REST API

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /backendLaravel/public
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php [QSA,L]

I followed the php artisan storage:link that Laravel Docs provide, however nothing changes.

I want to be able to access these files publicly using http. So, http://endpoint/SDUpload/hello.jpeg

How do I achieve this

Answer 1

storage:link creates a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public . Try either moving your storage/app/images folder to storage/app/public/images or create a symbolic link from public/storage/images to storage/app/images with: ln -s storage/app/images public/storage/images .

Answer 2

I haven't tried this but I'm assuming it would work. In Laravel there is a public_path() helper as well as a storage_path() helper. If you are trying to display these images online in your html, you can try to use the storage helper. Each of these helpers are used to access the given directory, either storage or public.

Example:

<img src="{{ storage_path('app/images/image.jpg')">

Hope I could help.