Laravel public URL for locally Uploaded File

Question

I have uploaded a publicly accessible file to my local disk. I can see it in my IDE at storage/app/public/mysubdir/myfile.js.
I have run the artisan command to create a symlink to the public directory. And I can also see the file at public/storage/mysubdir/myfile.js.
Yet when I go to http://my.app/storage/mysubdir/myfile.js I get the error "NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 179".

Any ideas? Do I need to add some special route? Or update Nginx?

I have followed https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/requests#storing-uploaded-files and https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem#the-public-disk

Cheers

Answer 1

I found out the problem. I originally ran php artisan storage:link on my local machine rather than in the virtual machine. I deleted the symlink and re-ran php artisan storage:link inside Vagrant/Homestead and then it started working.

Answer 2

be sure to store file publicly like this:

$request->file('file')->store('images', 'public');

and restore it something like that:

asset('storage/file.ext');

to know more:

• Storing files in laravel
• FileSystem: Prepare public disk

Answer 3

Please check my code upload image to store in public folder work on both local and server side

public function uploadImage(Request $request){
        $file =  Input::file('image'); 
        if(empty($file)){
            return Response()->json(['error' => "Image is required" ], 406);
        }
        $extension = $file->getClientOriginalExtension(); 
            $filename = rand(11111111111,999999999999).'.'.$extension; 
            $tmp_path = public_path('users/thumbnail/');
            $letmovefiles   = $file->move($tmp_path, $filename);
            $full = $tmp_path.$filename;
            $destinationPath = public_path('users/');
            if ($_FILES['image']) {
                $image   = Image::make($full);
                $image->resize(600, 600)->save();
                $new_path = $destinationPath;
              rename($destinationPath,$new_path);  
            }
          $getlnik = url('users/thumbnail').'/'.$filename;
         return Response()->json(['url' => $getlnik ], 200);
    }