Laravel

TIP

Part of the Web Apps family, Laravel supports many familiar components shared by all other apps. See WebApps.md for preliminary information that covers the update process.

Troubleshooting

Linking storage directory

artisan storage:link prior to Laravel 7 (laravel/framework #32430 (opens new window)) creates an absolute symbolic link, which cannot be properly traversed by Apache. 7+ includes a new flag, --relative to convert this link to a relative symlink. Both approaches are valid on Laravel 7+:

./artisan storage:link --relative

Or convert absolute to relative:

LN="$(readlink public/storage)"
rm -f public/storage
ln -rs "$LN" public/storage

Temporary variable

ln will create a symbolic link within a symbolic link when written as a one-liner, i.e. ln -rsf "$(readlink public/storage)" public/storage as it resolves the target, public/storage/ then attempts to create a symlink within there named after the referent basename.

First unlinking the symlink allows for a symlink to be created named after the target.

Interestingly, if the target were a file, then -f (force overwrite) would behave as expected.