Laravel does not show images on production server

Question

my production server is ubuntu Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and I have laravel 5.5 In the route:

/var/www/forumb

my public folder is in the directory:

/var/www/forumb/public

users upload images and these are saved in:

/var/www/forumb/public/uploads/images

the images folder has 777 permissions in the images folder there are images that use the cover and these are shown normal from the views

the problem is that the images that upload the users are not seen from the views and these are in the same folder images

the cover images I can see directly from the browser like this:

http://forumb.com/uploads/images/banner1.jpeg

the user images

http://forumb.com/uploads/images/5fa7385e1542a31ab9c34419b4d914fe81a11449.jpeg

but these can not be seen, laravel returns 404 error

the only images that can be seen from the views are the ones that came up together with the framework and that are in the images folder

all the others can not be seen until I uploaded an image from filezilla to the server but can not see either

this only happens on the production server, on my localhost everything works normal

this is mi code in the view

<img class="card-img-top border-bot" src="{{ !is_null(user()->image) ? $profile_image : '/uploads/images/facebook-default-no-profile-pic.jpg' }}" class="img-fluid rounded mx-auto d-block" alt="{!! user()->nombre_empresa !!}">

this my controller

public function index()
{
    $perPage = 6;
    $page = input('page', 1);
    $baseUrl = config('app.url') . '/news-and-events';
    $items = News::whereHas('photos')->with('photos')->active()->orderBy('active_from', 'DESC')->select('news.*')->get();
    $profile_image = profile_image();
    $total = $items->count();

    // paginator
    $paginator = new LengthAwarePaginator($items->forPage($page, $perPage), $items->count(),
        $perPage, $page, ['path' => $baseUrl, 'originalEntries' => $total]);

    // if pagination ajax
    if (request()->ajax()) {
        return response()->json(view('website.news_events.pagination')
            ->with('paginator', $paginator)
            ->render());
    }

    return $this->view('news_events.news_events')->with('paginator', $paginator)->with('profile_image', $profile_image);
}

profile_image() function

function profile_image()
{
    $image = user()->image;
    $gender = user()->gender;
    if ($image && strlen($image) > 5) {
        return '/uploads/images/' . $image;
    }
    else {
        return "/images/admin/$gender.png";
    }
}

the images are uploaded normally but not shown

Please post your controller function which handles the upload. — user320487
Can you verify, by looking at the filesystem in your hosting, where the files actually end up? Are you sure you're saving the images in public/uploads/images and not somewhere in the storage folder? — sisve
if I'm sure because I can see from the terminal that the files that users upload are in the images folder — jhoss
Did you try replacing relative path to absolute with asset helper? — Ajay Makwana

Alexey Mezenin Alexey Mezenin · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-19T05:46:37

When you save an uploaded file to disk, Laravel puts the file in storage/app/public and not in public. So, you need to create a symbolic link to have access to these files from the web.

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

To create the symbolic link, you may use the storage:link Artisan command:

php artisan storage:link

https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/filesystem#the-public-disk

Laravel does not show images on production server

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