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How to access and setup storage files after upload in laravel

How to access and setup storage files after upload in laravel ?

Aman Jain, May 23, 2022May 26, 2022

In this article i will show you to access and setup uploaded storage files in laravel. This is strongly recommended that not to use direct URL from storage, laravel internally handle it by creating Symblink but some developers access the files of storage directly without knowing the consequences of website vulnerability. Sometimes we put public/index.php in root folder which gives several access to hackers to hack easily to website so i recommend it to not to perform this activity rather than create virtual host or artisan serve command.

While using virtual host or artisan serve command we can’t access storage folder directly so to access the files we need to create Symblink first.

So let’s understand how to access and setup storage files after upload in laravel

This is an important step and i suggest you to not skip this step, if you are going to show images in your website because you must need to access the image to show it on website so open config\filesystems.php and add public_path('uploads') => storage_path('app/uploads') to links block

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Filesystem Disk
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may specify the default filesystem disk that should be used
    | by the framework. The "local" disk, as well as a variety of cloud
    | based disks are available to your application. Just store away!
    |
    */

    'default' => env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER', 'public'),
    'disks' => [

        'local' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => storage_path('app'),
        ],

        'public' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
            'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
            'visibility' => 'public',
        ],

        's3' => [
            'driver' => 's3',
            'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
            'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
            'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
            'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
            'url' => env('AWS_URL'),
            'endpoint' => env('AWS_ENDPOINT'),
            'use_path_style_endpoint' => env('AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT', false),
        ],

    ],
    'links' => [
        public_path('storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
        public_path('uploads') => storage_path('app/uploads'),
    ],

];

Since we are using in our controller this code

$destinationPath= '/uploads/images';
         
$storageDestinationPath=storage_path('app'.$destinationPath);

so we created a Symblink as

 public_path('uploads') => storage_path('app/uploads'),

Now run artisan command to run Symblink

php artisan storage:link

Or for shared hosting

Route::get('/artisan-link', function () {
    Artisan::call('storage:link');
});

NOTE: If you are using php artisan serve and virtual host to serve your application then above method will work perfectly but in case you are putting your public/index.php in root folder then you need to add public in URL. Example

URL for php artisan serve and virtual host will be and this will work perfectly

http://localhost:8000/uploads/images/16525039733751202249.png 

and you are putting your public/index.php in root folder then you need to add public in URL

http://localhost/projectname/public/uploads/images/16525039733751202249.png 

You can check full example here :

beenhere

Full Example

How to Upload image with preview in Laravel 8 with example ?

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Aman Jain
Aman Jain

With years of hands-on experience in the realm of web and mobile development, they have honed their skills in various technologies, including Laravel, PHP CodeIgniter, mobile app development, web app development, Flutter, React, JavaScript, Angular, Devops and so much more. Their proficiency extends to building robust REST APIs, AWS Code scaling, and optimization, ensuring that your applications run seamlessly on the cloud.

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