Laravel 5.3 local storage path

Question

I have Laravel 5.3 with local filesystem. The APP_URL in my .env is:

http://localhost/myapp

I linked the storage to public

php artisan storage:link

I have an image in:

myapp/storage/app/public/defaults/test/file.png

In the database the path is saved like this:

public/defaults/test/file.png

So in my blade.php I try to access the image

<img src="{{ Storage::url($user->test)}}" width="" alt="">

But the image isn't showing and the URL of the image is:

http://localhost/storage/defaults/test/file.png

so why it's ignoring the app_url? and even if i change the link to this:

http://localhost/myapp/storage/defaults/test/file.png

the image isn't showing up.

How can I access the Image in my myapp/storage/app/public/defaults/test/file.png with Storage::url?

BR

Answer 1

Try this:

1) Fire php artisan storage:link command, if you haven't already

2) In database, store path relative to the root/public directory with prefix storage.

So if you have image at root/public/defaults/test/file.png, then in the database, store this path: storage/defaults/test/file.png

3) And finally in the view, display it like:

<img src="{{ asset($user->test )}}" width="" alt="">

Make sure $user->test has value storage/defaults/test/file.png

OR

3) If you don't want to store storage prefix into the database, then store path like:

defaults/test/file.png

and in view:

<img src="{{ asset('storage/' . $user->test )}}" width="" alt="">

Note: Tested with Laravel 5.4, but pretty sure that it will work for Laravel 5.3 as well.

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Here is a complete demo that I have created which illustrates image uploading and displaying:

https://github.com/xparthx/laravel5.4-image-upload

Answer 2

if you want to access file in your storage folder you need to create route for that link

Route::get('storage/defaults/test/{filename}', function ($filename)
{
    $imagePath = storage_path() . '/defaults/test/' . $filename;

    if(!File::exists($imagePath)) {
        //Not have file do something here
    };

    $file = File::get($imagePath);
    $type = File::mimeType($path);

    $response = Response::make($file, 200);
    $response->header("Content-Type", $type);

    return $response;
});

now you can access by your link

You have another way such as keep your image in [your project]/public/images/ in this way you can access your image by http://localhost/images/file.png (no need to create route)

But I suggest your create a new folder in you server example /data/images and set vhost in apache for allow the path

Alias /images /var/www/data/images

<Directory /var/www/data/images>
   IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst
   Options MultiViews Indexes
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

Hope this help