Access to the storage folder in Laravel is impossible

Question

I have Laradock on my MacBook.

I make php artisan storage: link

My website is this URL: http://project1.test

My website upload files to storage/.

When I open in browser: http://project1.test/storage/my-file-name.jpg I have error: 404 NOT FOUND

How can I resolve it?

Did you try to "echo asset('storage/my-file-name.txt');" to find out your file path? — Keivan Sina, Jul 06 '19 at 13:32
for upload and all other files which are used by the site users, the proper directory is PUBLIC. uploading the file in STORAGE is wrong. please switch to public and user publuc_path() function to access the location. — Mohammed Samgan Khan, Jul 06 '19 at 13:54

Ahmad Mobaraki · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-06T14:07:11.670

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Solution 1: create a symlink

you can not access files located in storage directory directly via URL! Only files located in public folder would be available publicity. So you should make a symlink in public folder pointing the directory or file (within storage folder) you want to share. Take a look at this answer

Solution 2:

Just upload the files in public folder!

edited Jul 06 '19 at 14:07

answered Jul 06 '19 at 13:46

Ahmad Mobaraki

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Ahmad is correct that you can not access storage the way you are trying to. However, a symlink is a bandaid solution. You should make routes and controllers that return things from Storage::disk – Tarek Adam Jul 06 '19 at 13:51
@TarekAdam I agree, thanks! I will update the answer – Ahmad Mobaraki Jul 06 '19 at 13:53
@TarekAdam please take a look at this : https://stackoverflow.com/a/30191854/5458806. what is your opinion? – Ahmad Mobaraki Jul 06 '19 at 13:55
That artisan command would make it more deployable with githooks. I'd never seen it before. So I guess that puts me on the fence for this issue. – Tarek Adam Jul 06 '19 at 13:56
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I make: php artisan storage:link, but it's not help – trafgs Jul 06 '19 at 15:15
@trafgs store the file in `storage/app/public` not directly in `storage` folder – Ahmad Mobaraki Jul 06 '19 at 15:32

Access to the storage folder in Laravel is impossible

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