Laravel 5.6 - Permission denied when trying to retrieve image

I have a Laravel 5.6 project running on a Windows Bitnami WAMP stack. I am storing an image like this..

$imageName = myfile.jpg
$path = $request->file->storeAs('images', $imageName);


This works and the file is correctly stored, I am trying to retrieve it like this..

$source = Storage::get('images', $imageName);

But I get the error message...

file_get_contents(C:Bitnamiwampstack-7.1.18-1apache2htdocsmyprojectstorageappimages): failed to open stream: Permission denied


This looks like a permissions issue, the storageappimages folder looks like this

drwxr-xr-x 1 win_user 192142 0 Jul 2 18:15 images


Anyone any ideas where I am going wrong?

storage

755

644

2 Answers
2

file_get_contents(C:Bitnamiwampstack-7.1.18-1apache2htdocsmyprojectstorageappimages): failed to open stream: Permission denied

you are save the file to default local disk, check your config/filesystems.php

default local disk is not allow access by url

'disks' => [

'local' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app'),
],

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


oops, my mistake, you are get the file, not display the image by url

try $source = Storage::get('images/' . $imageName);

$source = Storage::get('images/' . $imageName);

It's permission issue. Execute the following commands in the parent directory of your document root.

Please note that public_html is not a public directory of the laravel project. It's the parent directory.

public_html

public

For Ubuntu:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public_html


For centOS

sudo chown -R apache:apache public_html


In case your web server does not have permissions to write a file, executing these commands will solve the issue. Let me know if it helps.

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