1- Have created the link public/storage to storage/app/public
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#the-public-disk
2- make sure www-data has the rights to read
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I am hosting my project on Hostinger and have created a symlink link from public/storage to storage/app/public, the uploaded images are stored in storage/app/public as well.
I access the image using
{{ asset( 'storage/' . $data->image ) }}
in my blade file, but the images did not display on my website.
I have tried this and it returns error 404. https://www.thehawkermarketplace.com/storage/products/May2021/CE6h3zO79QHBBiyyhL8r.jpg
This is my app directories:
How should I display the image?
1- Have created the link public/storage to storage/app/public
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#the-public-disk
2- make sure www-data has the rights to read
The symlink has already been created from public/storage to storage/app/public
lrwxrwxrwx 1 u398449571 o53367030 78 May 26 06:23 storage -> /path/to/thehawkermarketplace.com/thehawker/storage/app/public
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
'visibility' => 'public',
],
'links' => [
public_path('storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
],
I have tried many ways to display the image but still not showing.
Try serving them from public. Or use a controller and a route, see https://laravel.io/forum/04-23-2015-securing-filesimages
I have tried this but not working, the uploaded images still goes to 404.
@monicaa something wrong with your urls. for example, they have in url /storage/app/public/products/..., while it should be just /storage/products (app/public added in symlink). can you try one of the urls without /app/public in browser to check if it works?
If it is: remove /app/public from image urls
I removed the /app/public already but goes to 404..
@monicaa can you provide 2 strings for 1 of your files:
Do you mean this?
Request URL:
https://thehawkermarketplace.com/storage/products/May2021/J4rKot7MIIbVxu9hNXeC.jpg
This is my website but all the uploaded images from public storage won't display
https://www.thehawkermarketplace.com
Btw I am using Laravel Voyager for my admin panel.
@monicaa ok, find this file in your filesystem and show real path of this file to us
public/storage
https://i.imgur.com/2VsLwt9.png
This directly goes to storage/app/public.
storage/app/public
https://i.imgur.com/xSs9qVr.png
I do set the file permission as well for /storage/ and /bootsrap/cache using
chmod -R o+w storage
chmod -R o+w bootstrap/cache
First off right click on the image space on your site and see what the exact URL is that the script is looking at and then check to see what the actual URL is that it should be looking at, then correct it as seen below.
You must show the exact URL in your config filesystem.php file for example:- 'public' => [ 'driver' => 'local', 'root' => storage_path('app/public'), 'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage', 'visibility' => 'users', 'throw' => false, ],
You also must show the exact URL in your .env file for example:- APP_URL=http://localhost/ybiz/public
first of all what does $data->image print?
I think I had a similar issue in a project. for images when your route name is the same name as a folder that exists in your server this happens. so for files rather than checking the file URL tries to get files from that folder.
honestly, I didn't know about this thing until I changed my routes to something else and it started to work. I don't know why is that but maybe you're facing the same issue. change the route to something that doesn't have a folder with similar name on the server.
$data->image refers to my product's image, the image path is correct and it is stored and can be shown in the storage/app/public
My routes name is all with period like product.index.
I didn't mean the route name. sorry if I didn't explain clearly. I mean since your route starts with storage/image_path and there is a folder in the server named "storage", sometimes it causes this kindof issues. if your URL was something like /exmaple_url/image_path I think the issue might get resolved.
@amirkamizi
I just changed my config/filesystems.php into
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'url' => env('APP_URL').'/uploads',
'visibility' => 'public',
],
and
'links' => [
public_path('uploads') => storage_path('app/public'),
],
and rename my public/storage into public/uploads, but still not working.
In my blade file,
{{ asset('uploads/'.$data->image) }}
Anything I wrong here or I lost somewhere?
have you solved it yet?
if not then I found the files for one of my old projects. this is how I did it and it was working:
in the routes:
Route::get('/images/{id}', 'ImageController@show')->name('image_show');
in the controller
public function show(Request $request,$id){
$photo = \App\Image::where('id',$id)
->first();
return response()->file(storage_path('app/images/'.$photo->file_name));
}
file system in config
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
'visibility' => 'public',
],
in the storage folder inside app I have 2 folders
Hi @monicaa
Best way is to split the pb
-1 in the very beginning of your index file , before <?php write this line
<img scr='image.jpg' alt='Image'>
and put an image with name 'image.jpg' in your public directory
make sure your see your image
-2 with your app, have a look to your page html source and watch the scr= ... for your image
-2.1 make sure your image is at that place
-2.2 ww-data ha the rights to see it
-2.3 your route is correct
@sr57 Did you means this file?
Still failed to display the image...
Image path correct as well.
By the way, how to set the www-data permission to see the file?
i run chown -R www-data:www-data storage and
chown: invalid user: 'www-data:www-data'
Is it I need to create a user for www-data first before setting the permission?
check you don't have a route in web.php that will respond to /storage
your image path is returning a laravel 404 error and it should not be reaching the framework
I checked already, there is no duplicate /storage in my web.php.
you showed a route for storage... have you removed that?
Yes, I removed that route already and did clear the route cache as well, but the image URL still returns 404.... Is it possible something wrong with my .htaccess?
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
php_flag log_errors on
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Send Requests To Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
is it a laravel 404 or from your webserver?
Is a Laravel 404
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/qa0zr1u.png
It actually is https://i.imgur.com/G4T8sRN.png
Could you echo this $data->image ?
also show us your APP_URL value in .env file
APP_URL is only used for CLI functions
@monicaa just store and use asset helper, like:
<img src="{{ asset('upload/imgcats') . '/' . $row->catpic }}" alt="" class="image">
Use your url.
PROBLEM SOLVED
I decided to change my symlink from storage/app/public to public_html/storage(root app folder) and Yay, it works!!!
In config/filesystems.php:
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'url' => env('APP_URL'),
'visibility' => 'public',
],
'links' => [
base_path('public_html/storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
],
In AppServiceProvider.php:
public function register()
{
$this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
return realpath(base_path().'/../public_html');
});
}
@amirkamizi @sr57 @jlrdw @silencebringer @snapey @bkf dev Thanks, everyone!
This Might be late but hope it helps some one Please go to your route/web.php file and add this code Route::get('/create-symlink', function (){ symlink(storage_path('/app/public'), public_path('storage')); echo "Symlink Created. Thanks"; }); Then after execute your website url with /create-symlink in you browser example it will show you symlink created.thanks and that will be done. This worked for me in production for images i uploaded in my blogs and were not rendering in the blade file.
I tried all the recommendations given here and none of them worked for me.
The basic problem is that the symbolic link from 'public' to 'storage/app/public' that we do have locally does not exist. That's why you can't see the images.
I solved it via SSH. There is no need to modify any files; They all remain exactly the same as they were originally created and uploaded:
Ready!
I hope it helps those who have not been able to solve it. It worked 100% for me with Hostinger.
@drfcozapata using this command line magic you can also do other wonderful things like composer install and php artisan config:cache etc etc.
Without SSH access to the command line you are just playing
Thanks @drfcozapata This was a very useful reminder to me during a move to production.
are your public_html and laravel folder separated? i have the same problem but it doesnt work :(
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