Laravel upload a file to different storage outside the project directory

Question

I'm creating a CMS wherein I can upload files(photos, pdf, etc) using Laravel's file upload. What I'm doing differently is that I want to store the file outside my CMS project directory let's say my website's storage folder. BTW I'm creating two different projects

Laravel documentation says that I can change the path where it will be uploaded in the filesystems.php what I did is get the relative path of my website storage folder and paste it here(see below).

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

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

As expected it's not working. Any help guys?

Answer 1

You can add multiple disk in your file system.

Just locate on same website storage folder

Example:

Project 1:

'disks' => [
        'custom_folder_1' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => '../path/to/your/new/storage/folder',
        ],
]

Project 2:

'disks' => [
        'custom_folder_2' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root'   => '../path/to/your/new/storage/folder',
        ],
]

the path should be the same location.

../path/to/your/new/storage/folder

and then you can use it like:

Storage::disk('custom_folder_1')->put('filename1', $file_content);
Storage::disk('custom_folder_2')->put('filename2', $file_content);