Laravel 5.4 storage file not found

Question

I am using laravel 5.4. I upload some document file in storage/app/public/documents folder like

$request->paper_file->store('documents');

and my file uploaded successfully.

in file system default storage is public and public conf is like

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

but when i hit /storage/documents/hQqlgifnVVH8bmrRPVdZ9aFGbhLmcc7g7bHZSX4u.pdf it says not found 404. How to solve this issue.

Answer 1

By default Laravel puts files in the storage/app/public directory, which is not accessible from the outside web. So you have to create a symbolic link between that directory and your public one:

storage/app/public -> public/storage

You can do that by executing the php artisan storage:link command (docs).

Answer 2

In laravel ^5.8:

• Make sure you run the command php artisan storage:link to link storage/app/public with public/storage.

now:

// this return some like 'public/documents/file.ext'
$path = $request->paper_file->store('public/documents');

// this return some like 'storage/documents/file.ext'
$publicPath = \Storage::url( $path) );

// this return some like '< APP_URL env variable >/storage/documents/file.ext'
$url = asset( $publicPath );

Answer 3

This problem happen to me after moving project to different folder. If you already have storage link generated, try to delete public/storage folder and run again:

php artisan storage:link