"Impossible to create the root directory " error when uploading file into public folder

I'm trying to store a file via AJAX to public folder in laravel, however when I submit the form I get the following message:

" message: "Impossible to create the root directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\Restaurante1\storage\app\C:/xampp/htdocs/Restaurante1/public/img".", exception: "League\Flysystem\Exception", file: "C:\xampp\htdocs\Restaurante1\vendor\league\flysystem\src\Adapter\Local.php"

I'm trying to store the file into the following folder inside public directory: public > img >uploads

My controller method for storing new sliders:

public function store(StoreSlider $request)
    {
        
        $uploadFile = $request->file('image');
        
        //generate random filename and append original extension (eg: asddasada.jpg, asddasada.png)
        $filename = str_random(6).'.'.$uploadFile->extension();

        // storing path (Change it to your desired path in public folder)
        $path = 'img/uploads/';

        // Move file to public filder
        $uploadFile->storeAs(public_path($path), $filename);
        
        
        $slider = new Slider();
        $slider->title = $request->title;
        $slider->body = $request->body;
        $slider->image = $path.'/'.$filename; // So that you can access image by url($slider->image);
        $slider->isVisible = $request->isVisible;
        $slider->save();
        
        return response()->json([
        
            'success' => 'Diapositiva guardada correctamente',
            'slider' => $slider,
        ]);
    }

This is my confgi/filesystems:

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Filesystem Disk
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may specify the default filesystem disk that should be used
    | by the framework. The "local" disk, as well as a variety of cloud
    | based disks are available to your application. Just store away!
    |
    */

    'default' => env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER', 'local'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Cloud Filesystem Disk
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Many applications store files both locally and in the cloud. For this
    | reason, you may specify a default "cloud" driver here. This driver
    | will be bound as the Cloud disk implementation in the container.
    |
    */

    'cloud' => env('FILESYSTEM_CLOUD', 's3'),

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Filesystem Disks
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may configure as many filesystem "disks" as you wish, and you
    | may even configure multiple disks of the same driver. Defaults have
    | been setup for each driver as an example of the required options.
    |
    | Supported Drivers: "local", "ftp", "sftp", "s3", "rackspace"
    |
    */

    'disks' => [

        'local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => storage_path('app'),
        ],

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

        's3' => [
            'driver' => 's3',
            'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
            'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
            'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
            'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
            'url' => env('AWS_URL'),
        ],

    ],

];