Displaying stored images on shared hosting

you need to be able to create a symlink from storage/app/public to your external, public area

On local environment I would run php artisan storage:link to create a symlink, but I cannot run it on server due to the hosting plan limitation. Any other way to create the symlink? I have the SSH access though.

...or store your files in the public folder?

But people keep telling about all this 'Conventions' and 'Best Practices' where they suggest not to put them in public folder?

it's no different since the symlink makes the folder externally accessible anyway

@Snapey How do I upload them in the public directory? Currently when I call the store method, I call it this way: ->store('public/myfolder1'); and that uploads the file to storage/app/public/myfolder1 in this folder.

My document root is: /public_html/mydomain.com/ what would be the passed argument for the store() method, if I wanted to store an image, say on /public_html/mydomain.com/imgs/myfolder1 ?

you can create a new disk in the config (or change the existing disk).Sorry, I'm on iPad at the moment so don't know exactly but I think it is in config/storage.php

<?php if (empty($row->dogpic)) { ?>
                        <td class="imgtd"> </td>
                    <?php } else { ?>
                        <td class="imgtd"><a href="<?php echo DIR . 'dog/view?dogid=' . $row->dogid; ?>"><img src="<?php echo DIR . 'upload/imgdogs/' . $row->dogpic; ?>" alt="" class="image"></a></td>
                    <?php } ?>

Or template language

<div id="tbl-container">
    <table class="cattable">
        <tr>
            <th class="imgtd">Catpic</th>
            <th class="cname">Name</th>
            <th class="csex">Sex</th>
            <th class="catcomment">Comments</th>
        </tr>

        @foreach ($cats as $row)
        <tr>
            @if (empty($row->catpic))
            <td class="imgtd"> </td>
            @else
            <td class="imgtd"><a href="{{ DIR . 'cat/view?catid=' . $row->catid}}" ><img src="{{ DIR . 'upload/imgcats/' . $row->catpic }}" alt="" class="image"></a></td>
            @endif
            <td class="cname"> {{ $row->catname }} </td>
            <td class="csex">{{ $row->sex }}</td>
            <td class="catcomment">{{ $row->comments }}</td>
        </tr>
        @endforeach
    </table>

</div>

<table style="width:80%;">
    <tr>
        <td> {{ $pageLinks }} </td>
    </tr></table>
<br>

DIR is path I resolved. A constant I made.

Edit you have to resolve paths, i.e., when you see things like

/../../../whatever/myimages

that is path resolving

Forget about laravel, path resolving is necessary no mater weather

php, java, asp, asp.net , coldfusion, a local windows machine where you are going to copy a file from one folder to another, etc etc.

@tanmay_das have you fixed this issue? please if you fixed let me know how have you fixed? I am having the same issue.

Thanks

There is another way to create a symlink without ssh access. Use this code

1. Create a file in your public_html file with a name (eg symlink-gen.php) with the code below

< ?php

$linkName = '/home/username/public_html/mydomain.com/public/myfolder1';

$target = '/home/username/public_html/mydomain.com/storage/app/public/myfolder1';

symlink($target, $linkName);

?>

Please modify it to suit your needs.

1. The run the file from your browser like this. www.mydomain.com/symlink-gen.php. If no errors are returned, then it was successful.

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php

@tanmay_das Please tell me have you found the solution to this issue?

@helpmyworld Yes I had. If my memory serves me correctly, this is what I had to do in order to display the images:

1. In my filesystems.php file, I had changed the storage path of the local driver from 'root' => storage_path('app') to: 'root' => '/home3/tanmay/public_html/mydomain.com/storage/app'.

2. Then I referred to the images like this: <img src="{{ asset('storage/app/public' . str_replace('public','',$image->imgsrc)) }}" alt="{{ $ad->name }}" class="img-responsive img-thumbnail" height="200" width="200">

3. storage/app/public/myfolder1 directory is where I used to store the images

I had this same problem and After trying the approved which is honestly long, I found this and it worked for me.

https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/issues/2020#issuecomment-349543909

very simply..

I have a site hosted on a shared HostGator server, I was able to solve the problem as follows:

For security reasons, I left the /public_html directory only the files in the public directory of Laravel, the rest of the files were in a directory on the same level as public_html. Example: /home /username/projectname

I did not change any settings in filesystem.php, I just created a symbolic link to the storage directory.

To create the symbolic link, I accessed the server with the PuTTY software (SSH), entered the public_html directory and executed the command ** **ln -s /home/username/projectname/storage/app/public /storage

The "php artisan storage: link" command did not work for me because it creates the symbolic link inside /home/username/projectname/public / storage.

And to show the image: '<img src = "{{asset ("storage/$image->imgsrc")}}" />'

Thankss