CSS and Bootstrap don't work in laravel5.8. How can I fix this?

Question

I am using laravel 5.8. And I got a huge problem. CSS and Bootstrap cannot be read.

1.I did rm storage because I wanted to make php artisan storage:link work. Finally I couldn't.

2.After php artisan serve did not work, so I changed to chdir('/'); in ServeCommand.php.

3.Also I changed to

$this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
            return base_path('PATH TO PUBLIC FOLDER');
          });

in AppServiceProvider.php

4.Now php artisan serve is working but CSS and BootStrap cannot be loaded.

This is my index.blade.php (landing page, all links are pasted in this file)

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Amatic+SC:400,700|Work+Sans:300,400,700" rel="stylesheet">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/fonts/icomoon/style.css')}}">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/bootstrap.min.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/magnific-popup.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/jquery-ui.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/owl.carousel.min.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/owl.theme.default.min.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/bootstrap-datepicker.css')}}">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/animate.css')}}">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mediaelement@4.2.7/build/mediaelementplayer.min.css">



    <link rel="stylesheet" href="external/fonts/flaticon/font/flaticon.css">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/aos.css')}}">

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{asset('external/css/style.css')}}">

This is my file structure.

This is my file structure.

I created external folder in public folder.

If someone knows solution, please help me out.

Here is my console

Thank you.

Answer 1

While I don't know what you exactly want to achieve, I am asuming you want to load files from the public/external directory.

If you have a clean Laravel 5.8 install {{asset('external/css/bootstrap.min.css') should work out of the box. So I should delete the app->bind stuff and try to use

{{asset('external/css/bootstrap.min.css')

see: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/helpers#method-asset