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Feb 16, 2018
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Confusions about laravel storage directory and its symlink
Okay, this is what I understand about the laravel storage so far:
All my public assets, things like profile pictures or any user-generated files should reside in myapp/storage/app/public and things that are not user-generated, but application-specific, such as: logo, banner etc., should reside outside the public directory. For instance, myapp/storage/app/private.
We create a symlink within the myapp/public/ directory that points to myapp/storage/app/public/ and we access our public assets by asset('storage/avatar.png'). It loads the avatar from myapp/storage/app/public/avatar.png
But how do I access my private assets? Say I want to load my logo.png file which is in myapp/storage/app/private/logo.png this path?
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@mhankins It's not working. Maybe because it's pointing to /media/tanmay/3806FF1D11D87FF6/code/myapp/storage/app/private/logo.png, which translates into this:
http://localhost:3000/media/tanmay/3806FF1D11D87FF6/code/myapp/storage/app/private/logo.png
instead of being translated into this:
http://localhost:3000/storage/app/private/logo.png
...relative to my application, not my entire disk (media/tanmay/blah/....).
And I just realized it will never get past the storage/app directory, since the symlink in the public (http://localhost:3000/) directory is always pointing to storage/app/public/
The only solution I can see is to put my private assets in public directory :(
Level 4
Anything that's visible in the browser, shouldn't it be considered public? And if that's the case, shouldn't logo, banner etc. be considered public too?
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