restrict access to directory in public folder of laravel for Authenticated users only

Question

Suppose we have a Forms directory in public folder of laravel.

And Now I want to only Authenticated users can access to that and if an unautho

Answer 1

i would say you need to use local disk instead of public folder if you want to hide content from the user. take a look at here https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/filesystem

still if you want to restrict the directory you can use wildcard route

for ex.

Route::get('/forms/{path?}', function () {
    if(!auth()->user()) {
        return 'unauthorized';
    }
    // if authenticated try to look for the file with requested path and return its content
    return File::get(public_path(ltrim($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/')));
})->where(['path' => '.*']);