Displaying laravel stored images on shared hosting

Well, you can create symbolic link using

php artisan storage:link

and access files using

<img src="{{ asset('public/myfolder1/image.jpg') }}" />

But sometime you can't create symbolic link if you're on shared hosting. You want to protect some files behind some access control logic, there is the alternative of having a special route that reads and serves the image. For example.

Route::get('storage/{filename}', function ($filename){    $path = storage_path($filename);    if (!File::exists($path)) {        abort(404);    }    $file = File::get($path);    $type = File::mimeType($path);    $response = Response::make($file, 200);    $response->header("Content-Type", $type);    return $response;});

Now you can access your files like this.

http://example.com/storage/public/myfolder1/image.jpg<img src="{{ asset('storage/public/myfolder1/image.jpg') }} />

Note: I'd suggest to not store paths in the db for flexibility. Please just store file name and do the following thing in the code.

Route::get('storage/{filename}', function ($filename){    // Add folder path here instead of storing in the database.    $path = storage_path('public/myfolder1' . $filename);    if (!File::exists($path)) {        abort(404);    }    $file = File::get($path);    $type = File::mimeType($path);    $response = Response::make($file, 200);    $response->header("Content-Type", $type);    return $response;});

and access it using

http://example.com/storage/image.jpg

Hope that helps :)

The simple answer here is run php artisan storage:link command manually

first, delete the storage folder inside your public folderthen add this code to the top of the web.php file.

Artisan::call('storage:link');

Hope this will help you.

An easy way that works could be running php artisan storage:link in your shared hosting ssh terminal. Then simply change the url for the public driver in filesystem.php

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