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Ahsan
Ahsan

Reputation: 1359

Laravel Cannot Access Image Stored in Storage Folder after Uploading in Server

I am trying to upload and retrieve image in my Laravel project. It worked perfectly in my local server, but after uploading in live server, its not working.

I am using nginx.

I have tried php artisan storage:link but it says

The "public/storage" directory already exists

I am using this line to open the stored image in a new page. 

<a href="{{ url('/storage/images/'.$file->file_name) }}" title="">View</a>

If I place mouse on the view button, it shows this link: my_ip/storage/images/image.png which I think is correct.

However, clicking the link redirects to homepage.

Upvotes: 15

Views: 42639

Answers (5)

Whipenstein
Whipenstein

Reputation: 71

I ran into the same issue, but had a slightly different resolution than what has already been mentioned here.

In my case, I had run php artisan storage:link from the host computer of my Docker solution. I needed to run it instead from within the context of the Docker container. A sensible solution, but one that's hard to track down, so I figured I'd share.

Upvotes: 0

Danendra
Danendra

Reputation: 167

I had this issue once, its trying to get to my "localhost:/storage/...."

I noticed that it's localhost not localhost:8000, just change your env

from

APP_URL=http://localhost

to

APP_URL=http://localhost:8000

Upvotes: 1

user1157784
user1157784

Reputation: 41

If you are still stuck on this question, this is what worked for me:

In my case I had to change the APP_URL in .env file to the name of my site. It was defaulted to http://localhost. Once I change it everything worked perfectly.

Upvotes: 3

Oliver White
Oliver White

Reputation: 665

In case you have uploaded public/storage folder to server and getting error: The "public/storage" directory already exists.

just delete it with 

rm -R public/storage

and run the command again

php artisan storage:link

Upvotes: 18

mwal
mwal

Reputation: 3103

The href will be correct, but that's not the issue. The issue is the presence of the file at the location of the link. It's not there, as you're finding.

When you upload, make sure you are not uploading a real directory at public/storage.

On your local server, did you, by mistake, create a real directory at public/storage?

If you did, you need to know that the laravel convention is to store your files in the storage/app/public directory in your app directory. You don't create the folder public/storage yourself. You create a symlink to link it to there instead. That way, stuff you put in storage/app/public, also appears, because of the symlink, at public/storage.

First check your local server follows the laravel convention outlined above (and in the docs), then, after uploading to your server, try the storage:link command again, and, so long as you don't have a real directory at public/storage anymore, but just a link, it should hopefully work.

Note what I've done here is interpret the error message you were getting about that directory already existing.

Also, check this answer if you are using Homestead. Instead of creating a storage link on the host computer, you should ssh into Vagrant and create a storage link here.

Upvotes: 21

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