Change the storage path in Laravel 5 - php

Question

I want to change the Laravel 5.1 storage path: something like /home/test/storage. This has the advantage that these files are not stored in the repository, which is fairly ugly I think.
In Laravel 4, this was very simple with bootstrap/paths.php.
In Laravel 5, it works by using $app->useStoragePath('/path/') in bootstrap/app.php. However, I want to define the storage path with a config option, like $app->useStoragePath(config('app.storage_path'). The config option calls an environment variable or returns a default location.
Doing this results in a Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class config does not exist'; this makes sense, because this function is not loaded yet.
I tried setting the storage path just after booting:
$app->booted(function () use ($app) {
$app->useStoragePath(config('app.storage_root'));
});
This changed nothing. I also tried directly binding it to path.storage:
$app->bind('path.storage', function ($app) {
return config('app.storage_root');
});
The last option works partially; the view cache is now placed in the correct location, but the logs are still at the old location.

Answer 1

Set it up in .env
app.php
'app_storage' => env('APP_STORAGE', storage_path()),
app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
public function register()
{
$this->app->useStoragePath(config('app.app_storage'));
}
.env
APP_STORAGE=custom_location

Answer 2

Laravel 5.3 is in bootstrap/app.php
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Set Storage Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This script allows us to override the default storage location used by
| the application. You may set the APP_STORAGE environment variable
| in your .env file, if not set the default location will be used
|
*/
$app->useStoragePath( env( 'APP_STORAGE', base_path() . '/storage' ) );

Answer 3

Here is a simple solution of changing the storage path in Laravel 5 like we do in Laravel 4
on bootstrap/app.php
# new storage path
# base_path() -> returns root path
$path_storage = base_path() . "../../storage";
# override already $app->storagePath using the function
$app->useStoragePath($path_storage);
this will make the storage path to be same with the session, views, cache, logs

Answer 4

This works on Laravel 5.2
File: app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
public function register() {
...
$this->app->useStoragePath(config('what_ever_you_want'));
...
}

Answer 5

Calling useStoragePath on your AppServiceProvider wouldn't do the job properly because the AppServiceProvider is called after the config files are loaded. so any use of storage_path in config files would still refer to the old storage path.
In order to properly solve this problem I suggest you extend Application class and then on the constructor of your own class write the followings.
/**
* MyApplication constructor.
*/
public function __construct($basePath = null)
{
parent::__construct($basePath);
// set the storage path
$this->afterLoadingEnvironment(function () {
$this->useStoragePath(/*path to your storage directory*/);
});
}

Answer 6

if your website is hosted;
move everything from public folder to root folder
$app->bind('path.public', function() {
return __DIR__;
});

Answer 7

add this code in your bootstrap/app.php :
$app->useStoragePath(__DIR__ . '/../custom-path/');
and in config/filesystem.php :
'local' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('everything'), //custom-path/everything
],
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path(''),
'url' => env('APP_URL'),
'visibility' => 'public',
],
and then run php artisan config:cache

Answer 8

This works on Laravel 5.8 because you have to load the environment variables before you try to use them.
File: bootstrap/app.php
$app->afterLoadingEnvironment(function() use ($app) {
$app->useStoragePath(env('APP_STORAGE', storage_path()));
});