symlink to subfolder in example.com/laravel

Question

I have installed Laravel 5.5 in subfolder on root of my shared hosting example.com/laravel and now I am creating symlink by php artisan storage:link via putty (terminal window) and got this error:

The symlink (): No such file or directory

How can I properly maintain a link to laravel project installed on example.com/laravel and when I later deploy it to other domain what parameters should be changed?

Alexey Mezenin · Answer 1 · 2018-02-15T10:51:56.073

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You need to create the directory to make the command work:

storage/app/public

From the docs:

By default, the public disk uses the local driver and stores these files in storage/app/public. To make them accessible from the web, you should create a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public

Also, make sure permissions are set correctly.

If you want to link any custom directories, create the symlink manually.

edited Feb 15 '18 at 10:51

answered Feb 15 '18 at 10:36

Alexey Mezenin

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you mean i have to careate public on following direcotory public_html/myproject/storage? – Jahan Ahmed Abbasi Feb 15 '18 at 10:43
i have created the storage folder under public_html/myproject/ but command didn't work – Jahan Ahmed Abbasi Feb 15 '18 at 10:44
@JahanAhmedAbbasi if the whole Laravel project is in `public_html`, the command will work. If not, you'll need to [create the symlink manually](https://stackoverflow.com/a/48176373/1227923). – Alexey Mezenin Feb 15 '18 at 10:46
@JahanAhmedAbbasi use the `ln` command like `ln -s /full/path/to/public_html/myproject/storage/app/public /full/path/to/public_html/myproject/public/storage/` – Alexey Mezenin Feb 15 '18 at 10:53
my main project is not in public_html only the public folder is in public_html and the remaining folders are in root (sibling to public_html) – Jahan Ahmed Abbasi Feb 15 '18 at 11:22

symlink to subfolder in example.com/laravel

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