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Shuaib Jaff
Shuaib Jaff

Reputation: 115

Problem with Symbolic links in PHP\Laravel


I am using Laravel 7 on Direct admin. I don't actually have access to Command Line/Terminal, and I need a Symbolic link of Storage.

I have Tried:

Route::get('/foo', function () {
    Artisan::call('storage:link');
});

and also:

symlink('/domains/MyProject.com/LaravelFolder/storage/app/public', '/domains/MyProject.com/public_html');

But I am receiving this Error:

symlink() has been disabled for security reasons

My LaravelFolder is Placed before public_html.

UPDATE: I realized that the Hosting company disabled this function; I asked them to enable it, But They say: it is impossible. Do you know an alternative way to do that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2564

Answers (2)

Shuaib Jaff
Shuaib Jaff

Reputation: 115

Old Solution

But I finally Solved This, It seems little bit stupid but it works:

In Ubuntu Linux I tried to create a symlink like the storage symbolic link in Laravel, with the following Command:

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

and then I compressed this symbolic link and uploaded to my public_html Folder and it works. I hope it will be Helpful..

2022 UPDATE (New Solution)

In such cases that your projects production environment is a Linux server and you are developing your project on Windows I offer you to set up a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) development environment.

This way you can simply use Linux terminal to creating a symbolic link with the following command:

// change laravelFolder with your laravel folder name
ln -s ../laravelFolder/storage/app/public storage

Here is Microsoft's quick guide to install and use WSL.

Upvotes: 3

cednore
cednore

Reputation: 885

You can modify the public disk's root path to point directly public folder. Consider the below snippet;

/** /config/filesystems.php */

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

Note that this is not a best practice.

Upvotes: 1

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