Laravel 5 - How to access image uploaded in storage within View

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I have got user s avatars uploaded in Laravel storage  How can I access them and render them in a view   The server is pointing all requests to  public  so how can I show them if they are in the  storage folder

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You can run this command in your console to make link  php artisan storage link  Reference link

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If you are using php then just please use the php symlink function  like following   symlink   home username projectname storage app public     home username public html storage    change the username and project name to the right names

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If you are like me and you somehow have full file paths  I did some glob   pattern matching on required photos so I do pretty much end up with full file paths   and your storage setup is well linked  i e  such that your paths have the string storage app public    then you can use my little dirty hack below  p     public static function hackoutFileFromStorageFolder  fullfilePath            if  strpos  fullfilePath   storage app public                   fileParts   explode  storage app public     fullfilePath              if  count  fileParts   gt  1                  return  fileParts 1                                   return

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without site name     Storage  url  photoLink      if you want to add site name to it  example to append on api JSON felids    public function getPhotoFullLinkAttribute         return env  APP URL   false  Storage  url  this- gt attributes  avatar

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If you  want to load a small number of Private images You can encode the images to base64 and echo them into  lt img src     image data    gt  directly    path   image png  full path   Storage  path  path    base64   base64 encode Storage  get  path     image data    data   mime content type  full path      base64      base64    I mentioned private because you should only use these methods if you do not want to store images publicly accessible through url  instead you Must always use the standard way  link storage public folder and serve images with HTTP server    Beware encoding to base64   have two important down sides    This will increase image size by  30   You combine all of the images sizes in one request  instead of loading them in parallel  this should not be a problem for some small thumbnails but for many images avoid using this method

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One option would be to create a symbolic link between a subfolder in your storage directory and public directory   For example  ln -s  path to laravel storage avatars  path to laravel public avatars   This is also the method used by Envoyer  a deployment manager built by Taylor Otwell  the developer of Laravel

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If disk  local  is not working for you then try this     Change local to public in  default    gt  env  FILESYSTEM DRIVER    public    from project folder config filesystem php Clear config cache php artisan config clear Then create sym link php artisan storage link   To get url of uploaded image you can use this Storage  url  iamge name jpg

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The best approach is to create a symbolic link like  SlateEntropy very well pointed out in the answer below  To help with this  since version 5 3  Laravel includes a command which makes this incredibly easy to do   php artisan storage link   That creates a symlink from public storage to storage app public for you and that s all there is to it  Now any file in  storage app public can be accessed via a link like   http   somedomain com storage image jpg     If  for any reason  your can t create symbolic links  maybe you re on shared hosting  etc   or you want to protect some files behind some access control logic  there is the alternative of having a special route that reads and serves the image  For example a simple closure route like this   Route  get  storage  filename    function   filename         path   storage path  public      filename        if   File  exists  path             abort 404               file   File  get  path        type   File  mimeType  path         response   Response  make  file  200        response- gt header  Content-Type    type        return  response        You can now access your files just as you would if you had a symlink   http   somedomain com storage image jpg   If you re using the Intervention Image Library you can use its built in response method to make things more succinct   Route  get  storage  filename    function   filename        return Image  make storage path  public      filename  - gt response               WARNING      Keep in mind that by manually serving the files you re incurring a performance penalty  because you re going through the entire Laravel request lifecycle in order to read and send the file contents  which is considerably slower than having the HTTP server handle it

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If you are on windows you can run this command on cmd   mklink  j  path to laravel public avatars  path to laravel storage avatars    from  http   www sevenforums com tutorials 278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows html

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According to Laravel 5 2 docs  your publicly accessible files should be put in directory  storage app public   To make them accessible from the web  you should create a symbolic link from public storage to storage app public   ln -s  path to laravel storage app public  path to laravel public storage   Now you can create in your view an URL to the files using the asset helper   echo asset  storage file txt

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It is good to save all the private images and docs in storage directory then you will have full control over file ether you can allow certain type of user to  access the file or restrict   Make a route docs and point to any controller method   public function docs            custom logic        check if user is logged in or user have permission to download this file etc      return response  - gt download          storage path  app users documents 4YPa0bl0L01ey2jO2CTVzlfuBcrNyHE2TV8xakPk png              filename png             Content-Type    gt   image png              When you will hit localhost 8000 docs file will be downloaded if any exists   The file must be in root storage app users documents directory according to above code  this was tested on Laravel 5 4

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First of all you need to create a symbolic link for the storage directory using the artisan command  php artisan storage link   Then in any view you can access your image through url helper like this   url  storage avatars image png

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