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I'm making a laravel webapp and I'm trying to access a image in a storage symbolic link /storage/images/face-ph.png.

It works when I do it locally like this:

<img src="/storage/images/face-ph.png>

However when I upload it to Heroku it can't find the path.

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  • php artisan storage:link not working? Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:51
  • @AdnanMumtaz I do it localy and it finds the file, but when I upload it to Heroku it doesn't find the file. Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:52
  • have you tried to run this php artisan storage:link on heroku? Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:53
  • @AdnanMumtaz How do you run it on Heroku? I did run it locally in cdm but I don't know how to run it in heroku. Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:55

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Adnan's answer has two issues;

  • If you use heroku run bash to execute a command, it's only executed in a one-off dyno. So this won't affect the live dyno.
  • The php artisan storage:link command generates a symlink with an absolute path. So when you'd run this during build, it'd map the absolute path of a temp build directory, instead of the final app's directory on the dyno.

I used a simple relative symlink to link both directories and add it to your git repository:

cd public/ && ln -s ../storage/app/public storage && cd ..

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Should I write that in heroku bash? I did, and the same 404 error persists. Also it says that 'storage/public': File exists
No, your Heroku bash commands are only executed in a one-off dyno, so that won't effect your public app. Simply run that command locally and make sure the changes are committed to your git history before pushing to Heroku.
@r.vanlaarhoven thanks had been searching for this since yesterday finally this worked.
@r.vanlaarhoven. you are very smart. It turns out that creating symlinks outside the public folder and inside the public folder really has a big impact. thankyou brother!
It worked for when id edit the .gitignore to allow the sym link commit. Thank you
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if you are using Heroku for your deployment you can try

heroku run bash
php artisan storage:link

OR 

heroku run /app/php/bin/php /app/www/artisan storage:link

you can use an absolute path or relative path to run binaries

Hope this helps

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Just tried this. It creates the symlink but there's nothing in it
make sure your storage folder is not .gitignore
It is not. So now the symlink is there with the image I want. and the route I use is <img src="/storage/images/face-ph.png"> is that the right path?. Inside my storage folder I have a images folder.
Which would be the right path to get the image from public/storage/images/face-ph.png
yes public/storage/images/face-ph.png is right path.
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