I am using laravel 5.5's storage symlink to store images. When I push code to the git and pull from live site then symlink path on live site becomes same as is on my local code . My local has this symlink
storage -> /home/path/to/project/app/public/
But live site expects this symlink path
storage -> /var/www/html/website.com/public_html/project_code/storage/app/public/
Every time I have to delete symlink and create it again on live site. I have do these steps on live site
cd public
rm storage
cd ..
php artisan storage:link
after doing these steps my symlink becomes according to live site and then it starts working. Live site should have this symlink
storage -> /var/www/html/website.com/public_html/project_code/storage/app/public/
project_code/.gitignore :
public/storage
project_code/storage/app/.gitignore
*
!public/
!.gitignore
How I can get rid of this issue.
Thanks in advance!
As your symlink points to another location within the same project, you can safely use relative paths while linking, instead of having absolute one (which is what artisan is setting up). That would require manual linking though:
cd app/public
ln -s ../storage/app/public storage
Remove current storage symlink first if you have it already.