Laravel link storage folder outside of project for cpanel hosted application

Question

I hosted my laravel application to cpanel. I want to make link to storage folder which have at my application folder at public_html/private/storage to outside of my application I meant directly at public_html folder here is bellow is my folder structure

private
----app
----controller
----public
etc
----storage

I want the storage folder link from outside of private at my cpanel so this should be link from public_html folder. I am trying to run

php artisan storage:link

but this creating folder at private/public folder. please help me for this

Answer 1

behind laravel's storage:link is just a symlink. if you have access to shell, you can use this command:

ln -s storage/app/public ../etc/storage