Laravel 5.6 - Permission denied when trying to retrieve image

Question

I have a Laravel 5.6 project running on a Windows Bitnami WAMP stack. I am storing an image like this..

$imageName = myfile.jpg
$path = $request->file->storeAs('images', $imageName);

This works and the file is correctly stored, I am trying to retrieve it like this..

$source = Storage::get('images', $imageName);

But I get the error message...

file_get_contents(C:\Bitnami\wampstack-7.1.18-1\apache2\htdocs\myproject\storage\app\images): failed to open stream: Permission denied

This looks like a permissions issue, the storage\app\images folder looks like this

drwxr-xr-x 1 win_user 192142 0 Jul  2 18:15 images

Anyone any ideas where I am going wrong?

Make sure the whole storage folder has the correct permissions — Vilius
Have confirmed 0755 permissions on storage folder and all subfolders — fightstarr20

kenken9999 kenken9999 · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-02T18:43:06

file_get_contents(C:\Bitnami\wampstack-7.1.18-1\apache2\htdocs\myproject\storage\app\images): failed to open stream: Permission denied

you are save the file to default local disk, check your config/filesystems.php

default local disk is not allow access by url

'disks' => [

    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app'),
    ],

    'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
        'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
    ],

oops, my mistake, you are get the file, not display the image by url

try $source = Storage::get('images/' . $imageName);

Laravel 5.6 - Permission denied when trying to retrieve image

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