How to Get the Path to the Laravel Storage Folder

How do you get the path to the Laravel Storage folder?

In Laravel 3, call path('storage').

In Laravel 4, use the storage_path() helper function.

Get path to file in storage

There is no correct way to do this; because it should not be done. The Storage is an opaque system to talk to different storage systems; as such there is no api to get the backing file path. As an example, that wouldn't work with Amazon S3. The only path your application knows about is the string you send to the Storage facade to work with the file, there are no guarantees that this string is used to generate the filename when the storage system stores the file.

There are some hacks you can use that works for the local disk, but those are not available for the Storage system in general. Using these solutions means that you'll limit yourself to only use the local disk; this will cause you troubles when you need to scale out and add another server. You'll then have two servers with two separate local disks, with separate content.

The correct way to work with the files, that will work for all configurations, is to get the file content (Storage::get), do the modifications (including storing them in a temporary file) and then write back the new file content (Storage::set).

If you're really sure that you will only ever use the local filesystem, use the File facade instead of the Storage facade. I'm unable to find any documentation for this, only the interface it exposes.

Reference: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/13610

Access to the storage folder in Laravel is impossible

Solution 1: create a symlink

you can not access files located in storage directory directly via URL! Only files located in public folder would be available publicity. So you should make a symlink in public folder pointing the directory or file (within storage folder) you want to share. Take a look at this answer

Solution 2:

Just upload the files in public folder!

How to retrieve file from Laravel storage subfolder?

TL/DR

Storage::disk('public')->get('block/3.jpg');

Explanation

The problem is you're putting storage in the path for some reason. It's not necessary and is leading to the wrong path being built.

Take a look at the default filesystems config:

'disks' => [
    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app'),
        'throw' => false,
    ],
    'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
        'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
        'throw' => false,
    ],

The root is what is useful to see here. storage_path() returns the full path to the storage folder. So something like storage_path('folder_1') -> /home/user/project/storage/folder_1.

The local disk is the default, so just doing Storage::get() will use it automatically.

You're using the public disk, so the actual location of these files is storage/public (symlinked into public/storage). This means doing Storage::disk('public') already begins at /home/user/project/storage/app/public. Adding storage again makes the path incorrect.

Using path may help with future debugging. Storage::disk('public')->path('block/3.jpg') will output the full path, and you can see where it's going wrong. For your code given it would probably show something like /home/user/project/storage/app/public/storage/app/public.

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