Change storage location in Laravel 5.4

Question

The current storage location of the Laravel is /Laravel/Storage/app/public. How do I change to /Laravel/public. I tried to edit filesystems.php but was unsuccessful:

Controller store function:

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $input = $request->all();
    $paciente = new Paciente($input);
    $paciente->save();

    if(empty($request->arquivo))
    {    
        return redirect()->action('PacienteController@index');
    } 
    else
    {
        $file = $request->arquivo;
        $fileName = $file->getClientOriginalName();
        $path = $request->file('arquivo')->storeAs('uploads', $fileName, 'upload');

        $arquivo = new Arquivo();
        $arquivo->paciente_id = $paciente->id;
        $arquivo->nome = $fileName;
        $arquivo->save();

        return redirect()->action('PacienteController@index');
    }   
}

Filesystems.php

return [

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default Filesystem Disk
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the default filesystem disk that should be used
| by the framework. The "local" disk, as well as a variety of cloud
| based disks are available to your application. Just store away!
|
*/

'default' => 'local',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default Cloud Filesystem Disk
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Many applications store files both locally and in the cloud. For this
| reason, you may specify a default "cloud" driver here. This driver
| will be bound as the Cloud disk implementation in the container.
|
*/

'cloud' => 's3',

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Filesystem Disks
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may configure as many filesystem "disks" as you wish, and you
| may even configure multiple disks of the same driver. Defaults have
| been setup for each driver as an example of the required options.
|
| Supported Drivers: "local", "ftp", "s3", "rackspace"
|
*/

'disks' => [

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

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

    's3' => [
        'driver' => 's3',
        'key' => env('AWS_KEY'),
        'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET'),
        'region' => env('AWS_REGION'),
        'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
    ],

    'upload' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => public_path(),
        'visibility' => 'public',
    ],

],

];

Answer 1

Create another configuration, example pictures, in your key root use the function public_path() indicating the directory public of your project:

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Filesystem Disk
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may specify the default filesystem disk that should be used
    | by the framework. The "local" disk, as well as a variety of cloud
    | based disks are available to your application. Just store away!
    |
    */

    'default' => 'local',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Cloud Filesystem Disk
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Many applications store files both locally and in the cloud. For this
    | reason, you may specify a default "cloud" driver here. This driver
    | will be bound as the Cloud disk implementation in the container.
    |
    */

    'cloud' => 's3',

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Filesystem Disks
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you may configure as many filesystem "disks" as you wish, and you
    | may even configure multiple disks of the same driver. Defaults have
    | been setup for each driver as an example of the required options.
    |
    | Supported Drivers: "local", "ftp", "s3", "rackspace"
    |
    */

    'disks' => [

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

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

        'pictures' => [
            'driver' => 'local',
            'root' => public_path(),
            'visibility' => 'public',
        ],

        's3' => [
            'driver' => 's3',
            'key' => env('AWS_KEY'),
            'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET'),
            'region' => env('AWS_REGION'),
            'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
        ],

    ],

];

To save images use:

$result = $request->file('image');
$ext = $result->getClientOriginalExtension();
$result->storeAs('images', uniqid().'.'.$ext, 'pictures');

_{Observing: in the code the last change indicates the configuration created in the file filesystems.php}

or

$result->store('images','pictures'); 

_{Observing: in the code the last change indicates the configuration created in the file filesystems.php}

---

If you don’t want to use any of this you can do it for the traditional move that saves directly to the folder public (in the example case it was placed in the folder public/images):

$result = $request->file('image');
$ext = $result->getClientOriginalExtension();
$result->move('images', uniqid().'.'.$ext);

_References:

• Filesystem / Cloud Storage
• Filesystem / Cloud Storage - File Uploads
• Helper Functions
• Helper Functions - public_path()

Answer 2

You don’t need to change anything in your code.

If you are using Linux (or the Homestead^en) just execute a command that makes a symlink^en (symbolic link) between the /storage/app/public and /public/storage and so you can use the disk public hassle-free:

php artisan storage:link

See this in the documentation^en.

You can do symlink also on Windows via command mklink and the Laravel already endures it, only this is restricted to administrators on the system.

Fortunately in the next system update, the Creators Update that will be simplified^en and even non-admin users can do this.