Creating symlink in Laravel (windows)

Question

I'm currently having some problems with creating symlink in my Laravel project. I'm currently on Windows 10 OS and I'm using GitBash.

I need to create symlink from storage/app/products_content to public/products_content

For that, I'm using the following command:

ln -s storage/app/products_content public/products_content

The problem is, I'm getting the following error:

ln: failed to create symbolic link 'public/products_content': No such file or directory

But, when I try to create a symlink like this:

ln -s storage/app/products_content products_content

It creates it with no errors, but the folder is in my root directory, not in /public.

What causes this error, could it be permission issues? I'm running GitBash as administrator. Any help appreciated. If I need to provide any additional code, let me know.

Answer 1

Try going into the public folder, then do:

ln -s ../storage/app/products_content products_content

And if that doesn't work, open Command Prompt (not PowerShell) And "browse" to the public folder, then do:

mklink /D products_content ..\storage\app\products_content

mklink is the same as ln except that the target and link is switched.

Answer 2

You may configure additional symbolic links in your filesystems configuration file. Each of the configured links will be created when you run the storage:link command:

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

Answer 3

Just run: php artisan storage:link and modify your path to: storage/products_content

Answer 4

The problem is when using windows

solution:

In my case, I am using laragon.

LINK CREATION (This is because the php artisan storage: link does not work on windows)

• For this case, you will have access to images
• Open cmd as administrator
• Verify that public access does not work (public \ images)
• Then copy in cmd: mklink / J C: \ laragon \ www \ project-name \ public \ images C: \ laragon \ www \ project-name \ storage \ app \ images

This would be similar to: php artisan storage: link

Take into account that to save in images it must be configured in the filesytem file (conf / filesytem)

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

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