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Diego Rios
Diego Rios

Reputation: 505

How to access Laravel symbolic link when uploaded to Heroku

I'm making a laravel webapp and I'm trying to access a image in a storage symbolic link /storage/images/face-ph.png.

It works when I do it locally like this:

<img src="/storage/images/face-ph.png>

However when I upload it to Heroku it can't find the path.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6408

Answers (2)

rvanlaarhoven
rvanlaarhoven

Reputation: 845

Adnan's answer has two issues;

  • If you use heroku run bash to execute a command, it's only executed in a one-off dyno. So this won't affect the live dyno.
  • The php artisan storage:link command generates a symlink with an absolute path. So when you'd run this during build, it'd map the absolute path of a temp build directory, instead of the final app's directory on the dyno.

I used a simple relative symlink to link both directories and add it to your git repository:

cd public/ && ln -s ../storage/app/public storage && cd ..

Upvotes: 6

FULL STACK DEV
FULL STACK DEV

Reputation: 15951

if you are using Heroku for your deployment you can try

heroku run bash
php artisan storage:link

OR 

heroku run /app/php/bin/php /app/www/artisan storage:link

you can use an absolute path or relative path to run binaries

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 4

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