Storage Symbolic Link - Laravel Forge - Help!

Firstly, if you store files in that folder, all you need to do is use the symlink and path to the file in your views. No need to even use Storage::url().

Have you got the symlink on the git repo you're pulling from?

Thanks for the reply.

The symlink is indeed on the repo, here: https://github.com/LukeBrandonFarrell/talentstatus/tree/master/public

I also changed the file code to use URL::asset('storage/' . $url) that worked fine on localhost.

I've pushed the newest version (http://46.101.35.173/talent/46). Still no luck though!

@bashy , Any ideas?

Thanks

@lukebrandonfarrell You've committed the wrong path for the symlink.

Raw: https://github.com/LukeBrandonFarrell/talentstatus/blob/master/public/storage

That was stupid of me.

@bashy do you know what I need to change it too? I've tried

• ../storage/app/public
• /storage/app/public
• http://46.101.35.173/storage/app/public
• /home/forge/default/storage/app/public

Those didn't seem to work.

../storage/app/public should work. I have that setup for mine.

I think I set mine up locally like so;

cd public

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

Turned out the storage path containing the photos was in .gitignore.

../storage/app/public worked.

Thanks for the help!

No need to use your Unix power!

In root of your Laravel app:

php artisan storage:link 

This is provided by Laravel by default to create symbolic link

@amirhazz Shame that if you have the symlink in git, it will be the wrong path. Using that command on each deploy is required or you can just use the unix command to add it properly, which will work each time.

@bashy Thanks very much for info. I Agree. Should run once in production again.

Hi @bashy ,

Please I really ll need your input with a similar case to this three that I’m having.

I’m using Git with Envoyer to deploy my Laravel app. Image uploading work just fine on local machine. But each time I push to server, the “storage” folder in “public” folder disappears and I will have to run “php artisan storage:link” to get it back. This is tedious because each time I update my code and “git push” to remote, I need to run the command again.

Please, is there a parmenent fix to this? Thank you.

@Deshola Envoyer should have a section where you can supply a list of folders to link to certain places. I don't use it, I use https://github.com/REBELinBLUE/deployer which does have that functionality.

@bashy , Thank you a lot. I figured it out and everything works perfectly.

@DESHOLA - WHat have you figured out?

For me it has to be ln -s ../storage/app/public storage in the public/ directory

I am using Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS