Issue with Storage on shared hosting

I am deploying my first project on a shared hosting.

I followed this tutorial to deploy the website and turn the public folder into the public_html folder of my hosting plan.

When I upload an image from my website (with storeAs() method), the file is uploaded in the private/storage folder, not the public one (where I would like).

The asset() function try to display the image from public_html/storage.

What can I do ?

Thank you 🙂

My files are like this :

private/
- app/
- bootstrap/
- config/
- database/
- resources/
- routes/
- storage/
- tests/
- vendor/
public_html/
- css/
- js/
- images/
- js/
- storage/

(Laravel 8, trying to be hosted on Hostinger)

The tutorial : https://dev.to/pushpak1300/deploying-laravel7-app-on-shared-hosting-hostinger-31cj

Answer

Ok guys i found the solution !

Here is how to deploy your Laravel project on one shared hosting using public_html folder : https://dev.to/pushpak1300/deploying-laravel7-app-on-shared-hosting-hostinger-31cj

This will work but you can have a problem (like me) with the storeAs() method if you deal with file uploads.

To solve this problem, I edited the MyProject/config/filesystem.php by adding this in the available disks :

'public_folder' => [
   'driver' => 'local',
   'root' => 'PATH',
   'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
   'visibility' => 'public',
]

Replace PATH with the complete path to your public storage (for example /home/you/domains/mydomain.com/public_html/storage/).

Now, open the controller which manage file upload and edit it like this :

request()->image->storeAs('/uploads', 'filename.png', 'public_folder');

This will upload the request()->image in public_html/storage/uploads/filename.png.

I hope it will help you if you had the same problem as me.