Symbolic Link

It sounds like you just need to create the symbolic link on the server as well. Run the same command you used locally to create the link and you should be fine.

Hi @sutherland

Thanks for the info, my remote site is running on a centos box, have you any idea how I would run the artisan cmd to get that working?

Is there another way of doing this?

Thanks

Connect to the server via SSH and run the artisan command in your project directory. If you aren't using git for version control I highly recommend it. I know I could use it better but as a starting point it at least makes deployments a lot easier. I just set up a server the other day that has a hook to automatically create a symbolic link whenever I push code to the server.

hi @sutherland,

For some unknown reason I am unable to access the server do be able to do the command.

Is there another way of getting this work other than making the symbolic link?

Thanks

You don't have SSH access to the server? What are you hosting it on? If you only have FTP access I don't believe you can create symlinks.

Morning @sutherland,

Its a long story, I have worked out another way of doing this: So in the filesystem.php I have added the below under disks:

        'uploads' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => public_path() . '/images',
        ],

and then I referenced it in my code :

$icon = $request->icon->getClientOriginalName();
            $main = $request->image->getClientOriginalName();
            $request->icon->storeAs('uploads/icon', $icon, 'uploads');
            $request->image->storeAs('uploads', $main, 'uploads');

Thanks for your help..