Change the storage path in Laravel 5

Question

I want to change the storage path Laravel 5.1 uses to something like /home/test/storage. This has the advantage that these files are not stored in the repository, which is fairly ugly I think. In Laravel 4 this was very simple with bootstrap/paths.php.

In Laravel 5 it this works by using $app->useStoragePath('/path/') in bootstrap/app.php. However, I want to define the storage path with a config option, like $app->useStoragePath(config('app.storage_path'). The config option calls an environment variable or returns a default location.

Doing this results in a Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class config does not exist'; this makes sense, because this function is not loaded yet.

I tried setting the storage path just after booting:

$app->booted(function () use ($app) {
    $app->useStoragePath(config('app.storage_root'));
});

This changed nothing. I also tried directly binding it to path.storage:

$app->bind('path.storage', function ($app) {
    return config('app.storage_root');
});

The last option works partially; the view cache is now placed in the correct location, but the logs are still at the old location.

Answer 1

Set it up in .env

app.php

'app_storage' => env('APP_STORAGE', storage_path()),

app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function register()
{
    $this->app->useStoragePath(config('app.app_storage'));
}

.env

APP_STORAGE=custom_location