How to deal with private images in laravel 5?

Question

I am new to Laravel and trying to store private images so that only authenticated users can access them. Firstly I stored images in Public/UserImages folder. But here all th

Answer 1

It's really up to you. It'll need to be outside the public directory - I'd personally pick resources/uploads or storage/uploads, or store them off-server entirely using the cloud filesystem support.

Whatever you pick, you'll need a route that fetches the file and passes it along to the user after first checking that they have access.