Cannot access images on shared hosting

Hi Everyone.

I'm a newbie on Laravel framework/community.

I've deployed Laravel on shared hosting. I have following structure.

root:
- laravel-app
  - public
    - images => here are the images saved(root/laravel/public/images
- public_html => from here the images are accessible.

How I can make a connection for the images to be accessible from the laravel/public/images on the link example.com/images/smile.png?

Can somebody help and explain in detail, this would be very very helpful for me.

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If in public I generally:

<img src="{{ asset('upload/imgdogs') . '/' . $row->dogpic }}" alt="" class="image">

Public is not part of the url however, you point to public as document root.

The asset helper has always worked for me.

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@jlrdw I'm using LARAVEL as REST-API for mobile app.

How I can achieve this connection between laravel/public/images with public_html/images? Any ideas?

Level 75

Figure out if you are going to use Passport or Sanctum for your API. Each has its own documentation.

Level 1

@jlrdw I meant how to link laravelapp/public with shared hosting public_html directory. For the API it self it's all good.

But I want to link laravelapp/public folder which is in the root, with the public_html

Level 75

@ensp if the laravel symlink isn't working, use the ln linux command. You can just look up some examples of usage.

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