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review the html source for the image, see what was generated
Jun 19, 2017
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Laravel storage goes to 404 page. (Symlink not working)
This is my url:
http://cakeandbake.dev/storage/app/thumbnail/qusrjRoVTlghf2JkSrfHciAMT4j8gycCMv0Rg7XD.jpeg
This should go to an image stored in the storage folder. I have symlinked the folder into my public using
php artisan storage:link
but for some reason it's giving me the 404 page.
This is how I call it inside my view, Am I doing this right?
{{ Storage::url('app/thumbnail/' . $recipe->feature_image) }}
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Thats what is generated? I feel like this is not corrected as the "storage" is in the url.
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well you should be able to check by just pasting that url into your browser, and removing elements of the path that you think are incorrect
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Yep already tried that. Unfortunately I cannot figure it out.
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show the result of ls public -la
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I've figured it out. It was the Symlink not working correctly. Following code got it working.
ln -s /Users/ashleybaker/code/cakeandbake/storage/ /Users/ashleybaker/code/cakeandbake/public
NOTE TO OTHERS WITH THIS PROBLEM.
You need to use the full directory path on your system due to the way symlinks work.
Working code:
ln -s /Users/_YOUR_COMPUTER_USERNAME_/_PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_/storage/ /Users/_YOUR_COMPUTER_USERNAME_/_PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_/public
Not working code:
ln -s _PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_/storage/ _PATH_TO_YOUR_PROJECT_/public
What is
php artisan storage:link
This creates a public folder in your storage folder. In my case I did not want this and wanted the symlink the other way around.
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If you symlinked the storage dir to the public dir, then have you just tried /app/thumbnail/qusrjRoVTlghf2JkSrfHciAMT4j8gycCMv0Rg7XD.jpeg for the image url?
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There's multiple threads for this. Here's one for last week: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/forge/storage-symbolic-link-laravel-forge-help
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please is this for deployment or a local project
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I was able to resolve this by running
rm public/storage
php artisan optimize:clear
php artisan storage:link
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@digitlimit Thanks a lot, I have resolved this issue using your suggestions.
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@prashantrai Please do not post reply to old, closed threads. If you have a questions or need help post a new thread to the forum.
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In my case I created "lessons" directory dynamically inside "storage/app/public/" Forgot to set permissions for this new directory due to which I was getting 404. Setting the permissions to 755 resolve the issue for me.
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In my case i should run the command inside Docker container
docker exec -it containerID bash
> php artisan storage:link
Hope it helps to somebody :)
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@khwabscript Genius
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@khwabscript Thanks for this! For the life if me I could not figure out what was going on. This worked perfectly. I'm using heroku to host my app, this looks like one of those commands you only need to run once. Thankfully heroku now has exec (beta) https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1112 , it lets you create an SSH-based terminal session into your dyno.
heroku login heroku ps:exec -a your-app-name
Now you can run the artisan command: php artisan storage:link
If you try to hit the public url you might get a permission error, so you need to grant that directory the correct permission. I did a chmod -R 755 storage/app/
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@khwabscript thank.
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@khwabscript Thank you so much. It just needed to be ran within the Docker container, as you said. All good now. Thank you!
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Does Windows have symlinks? What's the recommended way to do this on Win11?
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@Christofer https://superuser.com/questions/1020821/how-can-i-create-a-symbolic-link-on-windows-10
I generally just store images in public, and if secure images, store out of web and serve with a script requiring authorization.
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