Spark: profile image not found.

Did you forgot this part of the installation?

Spark documentation: Linking The Storage Directory

Once Spark is installed, you should link the public/storage directory to your storage/app/public directory. Otherwise, user profile photos stored on the local disk will not be available:

ln -s /path/to/storage/app/public /path/to/public/storage

Same problem. I did the linking but the profile pic is still missing.

Was this solved? I am having he same issue

@mfrancik Run php artisan storage:link see if it helps.

I am also having the same issue, and yes, did run artisan storage:link on a brand new install of Spark 4.0.

Same here with fresh install of spark 4.0.4, Laravel 5.4.11, php7.1 and Valet

Tried linking with php artisan storage:link and also

ln -s $(pwd)/storage/app/public $(pwd)/public/storage

Also tried other variants of the above from the root of the project.

*edit - dropping a file manually into the /public/storage directory replicates it back to the /storage/app/public directory as expected. So Im thinking this might be a spark bug?

is your app actually running on the "localhost" domain? It stores the domain as part of the image path in the db so unless you set APP_URL correctly in your .env it will use the default of "http://localhost" which may not be correct.

Also, when doing the linking, if you are in a VM like homestead you need to run the artisan command or manual linking from within the VM, not your local filesystem.

Folks, you would be best served by thoroughly reading the laravel docs on storage. If your permissions are correct and your APP_URL is correct, then you should have to do nothing more than run php artisan storage:link without any special variants. Once these items are posted, they are stored locally in a very Laravel specific manner and have to be accessed in a Laravel specific manner...all of this is explained in the docs. Do yourself a favor and read the Laravel docs. Personally, I have not encountered any problems using storage and it should work perfectly for you as well. And, that includes using it in Spark.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem

It is a Spark bug:

https://github.com/laravel/spark/commit/e163ac68919b7c29ae703dbf8cd350e4670030d8

@Daaf Yes Said is fixing it. That commit you linked to which was trying to delete the previously uploaded image (because they weren't by default) accidentally deleted the newly uploaded image instead. So it's deleting the image as soon as it gets saved to disk.

https://github.com/laravel/spark/issues/593

Thanks Daaf,Cronix for confirming the bug.

Thought I was going crazy.

I implemented the changes in Said's commit above , and it fixes the problem.

LOL lost 3 hours today on this as it was working a few days ago before I upgraded to Spark 4.0

LoL you have to set your APP_URL in your env file then refresh your app and reupload your photo

Hi. +1, we have the same issue.

Laravel forge on DigitalOcean CentOS, running Spark 4.0.

I tried to change the APP_URL, but doesn't seem to make it work.

Please help?

This may work (at least it worked for me):

Update the handle method in Vendor > Laravel > Spark > Interactions > Settings > Profile > UpdateProfilePhoto as:

public function handle($user, array $data)
    {
        $file = $data['photo'];

        $path = $file->hashName('public/profiles');

        // We will store the profile photos on the "public" disk, which is a convention
        // for where to place assets we want to be publicly accessible. Then, we can
        // grab the URL for the image to store with this user in the database row.
        $disk = Storage::disk('local');

       $disk->put($path, $this->formatImage($file));

       if (preg_match('/profiles\/(.*)$/', $user->photo_url, $matches)) {
           $disk->delete('public/profiles/' . $matches[1]);
       }

       $user->forceFill([
           'photo_url' => $disk->url($path),
       ])->save();

   }

Is this any update on this. The github links are all 404..

@Korona123 You need to register your github with Spark via the spark website when logged in in order to access the private spark repo, but this was fixed many versions ago.

I've hard this same issue with Laravel Spark 6.0 today. To fix it, set you.env APP_URL to a proper URL matching your site. Finally go into your database and change the photo_url url to match your domain in the users table.

I hope that helps.