Storage link not loading image after symlink

You only create the folder /storage/app/public This is where you upload the images to.

Running php artisan storage:link will create a symlink from /public/storage --> storage/app/public/

So when you now add the following HTML:

<img src="/storage/custom_folder/image.jpg">
// or
<img src="{{ asset('/storage/custom_folder/image.jpg') }}

It will use the image from /storage/app/public/custom_folder/image.jpg

You should not create anything else, it should then already work.

If it does not, check the following:

• The symlink is working: ls -al /path/to/public should show a symlink 'storage' linked to /path/to/storage/app/public
• The image file / path exists :
  • ls -al /path/to/public/storage/
  • ls -al /path/to/public/storage/custom_folder
  • ls -al /path/to/public/storage/custom_folder/image.jpg
• the image is accessible via the browser: http://my-domain.test/storage/custom_folder/image.jpg

@lostdreamer_nl thanks for your quick reply, I had check the commands so you mentioned

[root@server project]# ls -al public/ total 56 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 May 21 14:39 storage ->/public_html/project/storage/app/public

However I am still not able to view the image in browser. Any more comments would be helpful.

Thank you

@sanjay23 So the symlink is correctly setup.

What about the other 2 ls commands?

• ls -al /path/to/public/storage/ Should return everything that is now in the folder '/public_html/project/storage/app/public'
• if custom_folder exists in the above command, then ls -al /path/to/public/storage/custom_folder should show all images in that folder.

If there aren't any images in there, then it wont work. If the custom_folder does not exist, it will not work

@lostdreamer_nl yes all the commands work perfectly fine.

[root@server project]# ls -al public/storage/banner/small/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 meet meet 15265 May 22 13:53 img-4_1526997214.jpg

But still I am not able to see this image. However on local it is working but somehow on server it is not :(

http://my-domain.test/storage/banner/small/img-4_1526997214.jpg should be the link then (after replacing the domain part ofcourse :p ).

And

• did you also run the php artisan storage:link on your server?
• Are the server's paths the same as on your local box?

Otherwise you'd have the wrong symlink on your server now, pointing to a non existing folder.

@lostdreamer_nl I am using the same URL as you mentioned, In the browser it shows Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found It hold me to go live :( :(

Just checking, when you access the routes to your pages, does public appear in the url?

I ask because it seems everything is inside a folder called public_html which is commonly the server document root

@Snapey There was public in the URL so I managed that via document root and subdomain document root set to /public_html/project/public so all links are loading perfectly fine. However only this image thing is not working properly which causes a very big problem in my project.

So in your browser address bar, does this show the image;

http://my-domain.test/storage/banner/small/img-4_1526997214.jpg

@sanjay23 Can you try this?

<img src="{{ url('storage/images.jpg') }}">

Good catch, I had the same problem using Vagrant and the solution from @abdul95 worked.

@sanjay23 did you ever solve this? I am having the same issue right now. Any image paths coming from the symbolic link are showing 404

Very good point!!

hi, I just get my special case, I require CHATTER and making the integration something change my LINK - so I figure out that - in the public folder I DELETE the folder called STORAGE, then I Run the code

php artisan storage:link

and the link again relink all the system - THIS WAS MY CASE AND IT SOLVE MY ISSUE of not seeing the images, just want to add this to this IF someone runs into the same issue it might help...

Hi, I had the same problem, I searched a lot online and I didn't find any solution, but I solved this, just I used Storage::url() instead of asset().

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

That's it.

Hi, I had the same problem, I searched a lot online and I didn't find any solution, but I solved this, just I used Storage::url() instead of asset().

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

That's it.

Where I use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage; I am having the same problem

I am also having similar issue using the facility. I have tried to resolve this issue, but I have not succeeded yet https://www.mybalancenow.us/

I'm having a similar issue. I'm running laravel Canvas for blogging, and it local images upload fine in local linux environment. But after git cloning to Hostgator server, and running storage:link, image uploads are appearing. I've confirmed that files are uploaded to the directory (in my case ~/www/storage/app/public/canvas/images/

But it seems Canvas is looking for files here: ~/www/storage/canvas/images

Note, of the hostgator webhost, I had to move all contents from the laravel public/ folder into the root dir of the laravel app, since all of it resides in the hostgator public_html folder. Therefore after running storage:link, it created the solitary storage symlink in the public folder (The [~/www/public/storage] link has been connected to [~/www/storage/app/public).

If i manually create a folder /www/storage/canvas/images, and put images files in there, then the images are displayed on my site as expected.

Any help on this would be appreciated! Cheers P!