Laravel not showing images form storage on shared server - php

Question

My images are not showing up on site. I get 404
Symlink function is disabled but I used this instead:
ln -s /home/USERNAME/my_app/storage/app/public /home/USERNAME/public_html/storage
to create it.
Url on site looks good https://my_app.com/storage/logo.png
Binded public path to public_html
$this->app->bind('path.public', function() {
return '/home/my_app/public_html';
});
I tried to get images in these two ways:
<img class="card-img-top" src="{{$post->getFirstMedia()->getUrl() }}" alt="Card image cap">
And tired with asset()
<img class="card-img-top" src="{{asset($post->getFirstMedia()->getUrl()) }}" alt="Card image cap">
But still nothing.
The src link looks good https://my_app.com/storage/logo.png but no image, just 404.
SOLUTION:
/home/USERNAME/my_app/ folder permissions were 700, changed to 755 and it works now!

Answer 1

If your public directory name is public_html in laravel project's root then you must have to change the links key value to in config/filesystems.php
'links' => [
base_path('public_html/storage') => storage_path('app/public'),
],
You can create code in route file to run laravel command in your cpanel.
Route::get('/foo', function () {
Artisan::call('storage:link');
});
If you still can't create symlink then here is the protected way to get your files from the storage folder
You can Get route to get files from storage directly.
Route::get('storage/{filename}', function ($filename) {
$path = storage_path('public/' . $filename);
if (!File::exists($path)) {
abort(404); // return 404 page
}
$file = File::get($path);
$type = File::mimeType($path);
$response = Response::make($file, 200);
$response->header("Content-Type", $type);
return $response;
});