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Type the command yourself with the good path.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ln.1.html
Or you can write in a php file and execute this file.
Aug 9, 2018
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Symlink(): no such file or directory because public folder is in a diffirent directory.
Hi,
I'm working on an application and wanted to implement image uploading to my application. Now when i want to create the symbolic link for my files, i get the following error:
ErrorException : symlink(): No such file or directory
Exception trace:
symlink("/home/user/private/application/storage/app/public", "/home/user/private/application/public/storage")
Now i know what the cause of this is, but i don't know how to fix and/or have a workaround for it.
I only have my public folder in my html_root directory, and have the rest of the application in a directory outside of my html_root. In this case /home/user/private/application.
when i use php artisan storage:link it tries to find the public folder in my 'private' directory, but can't find it because my public folder is in html_root.
I've browsed through stackoverflow and laracast already, but haven't found a similar issue yet.
Does anybody have a solution for this problem?
Kind Regards,
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Try to run the command manually
i.e.
ln -s /path/to/laravel/storage/folder /path/to/laravel/public/folder
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@salmon and @rivory_g performing the ln command for the storage did not solve my problem.
It did create the symlink for the storage folder but seemed to have broken the upload functionality of Laravel.
Instead i went back to Laravel's official directory structure and placed my contents from html_root back to my private directory inside the public folder. I then created a symlink of the public folder and renamed it to html_root.
This way i can use everything without having to tweak or use custom commands.
Solution: Create a symlink of the public folder to your /home/user and remove your html_root folder or rename it.
ln -s /home/user/private/application/public /home/user
Inside your /home/user folder you now have a symlink named public. Rename this folder to html_root and it should make the website function normally.
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while you are in the root folder do the following:
you can remove the existing link
rm public/storage
then re-link it again with the php artisan storage command
php artisan storage:link
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Problem solved by placing my html_root content back to my private folder in /home/user/private/application and creating a symlink of my public folder that goes to my /home/user and renaming the /home/user/public folder to /home/user/html_root (and keeping the symlink intact).
So i remain with the official Laravel directory structure and make a faux (symlink) of the public folder.
With this i can use the php artisan storage:link normally without creating a custom Command.
Regards: James Johnathon https://www.contactyahoousa.com
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thanks :) rm public/storage then run php artisan storage:link fixed the issue
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The following commands will help you remove the symbolic link from the public folder:
cd public
rm storage
After removing the symbolic link change directory to the main folder using: cd ..
Now create the symbolic link with the following command:
php artisan storage:link
After running the command successfully, you should get the following message
The [public/storage] directory has been linked.
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After 1 hour I have got a solution:
Write down the code on your web.php route file:
Route::get('/linkstorage', function () { $targetFolder = base_path().'/storage/app/public'; $linkFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/storage'; symlink($targetFolder, $linkFolder); });
After than navigate to your url/linkstorage
it's helped me.
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Thanks, this solved my issue
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Thanks a lot,this save my project.
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@debanjanroy Thanks so much!
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@debanjanroy This really helped
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@debanjanroy Best solution!
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Route::get('/linkstorage', function () { $targetFolder = base_path().'/storage/app/public'; $linkFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/storage'; symlink($targetFolder, $linkFolder); }); this did the magic for folks on shared hosting.
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@sergitet94 I get this error = Undefined variable $enlaceCarpeta
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