Storage in laravel says symlink - no such file

Question

I deployed laravel app on shared hosting in public_html/app folder. Here is everything from public folder. In /../../files I have rest of files. When I do php artisan storag

Answer 1

Just in case your down here still without an answer.

I had trouble because I did the symlink locally, then copied the files to the server. In order to make it work I did the following:

$  cd path/to/laravel/root

// if public does not exist, first create it.
$  cd public

// if public/storage does not exist, first create it.
$  rm -r storage

$  cd ..

// Now it should work
$  php artisan storage:link 

Answer 2

I'm face same error when use share hosting and my public directory move to public_html or different directory like : project directory in root name "project" and public directory in root name "public_html"

when run artisan command by Artisan::call('storage:link'); then face this error.

Solution: 1st need to bind your public directory in app/Providers/AppServiceProvider register method

 $this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return base_path('../public_html');
 });

Now run the command its working fine

Answer 3

Go to config/filesystem.php in the symbolic links section in my case I removed public_path function and wrote my own path in it then run php artisan storage:link command again.

 'links' => [
    '/var/www/storage' => storage_path('app/public'),
],

Worked for me.

Answer 4

Make sure the APP_URL configuration in .env file is set correctly. after that run following command line:

php artisan config:cache
php artisan storage:link

Answer 5

My problem was that te symlink not was placed in /localhost/public/ but in /localhost/storage/app/ When i removed the symlink in /localhost/storage/app/ the artisan command works like a charm

In my code i placed this to prevent creating the wrong symlink

Route::get('/clear', function () {
    Storage::deleteDirectory('public');
    Storage::makeDirectory('public');

    Artisan::call('route:clear');
    Artisan::call('storage:link', [] );
});

Answer 6

1. Go to /public directory and run:

   rm storage

2. Go to Laravel root directory and run:

   php artisan storage:link

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Edited on May 1st 2018

This problem comes when laravel project is moved/copied to some other folder.

The storage link is still there thus causing the exception error. public/storage folder exists and points to wrong location and it needs to be deleted with rm storage command.

After that run php artisan storage:link in terminal and it will create the storage link.

This needs to be done EVERY time when laravel is moved/copied/deployed!