Laravel 5.6 Storage::download file not found

Question

I'm using Laravel 5.6, filesystems.php config default.

When file is uploaded I have record in my DB with path column where paths is recorded like - posts/p4NbvgcxHFcT10TwbS2UUJrajifPcqpN3i7iSyyk.png

Symlink was created and files stored in public dir.

 $path = $file->store('posts', 'public');

This path is recorder to DB, if I want to show e.g. image, I can access it by:

{{ asset('/storage/'.$file->path) }}

But when I try to force download it get exception - FileNotFoundException File not found at path:

File download method:

  public function downloadFile($id){
    $file = File::find($id);

    //return Storage::download(storage_path()."/app/public/".$file->path, $file->original_name);
    //also tried like this
    return Storage::download(asset('storage/'.$file->path), $file->original_name);
}

App running on Windows OS

Solution

Solution was: return Storage::disk('public')->download($file->path);

Comments

[Lukáš Irsák]

what returns $file->path property ? try to dump it in downloadFile method

[brombeer]

{{ asset('/storage/'.$file->path) }} and asset('storage/'.$file->path) might not be same

[darjus]

dd( asset('/storage/'.$file->path), asset('storage/'.$file->path) ); result is same. $file->path return path like posts/p4NbvgcxHFcT10TwbS2UUJrajifPcqpN3i7iSyyk.png

[darjus]

Nope, same error. But storage_path('app/public/'.$file->path) gives correct path to the file. If i write to explorer path returned from this code I can access file, but Storage::download can't see this file.

[Alexa]

Gracias tu solución funcionó! Como comentario adicional, public deberá ser cambiado por el repositorio que se esté manejando como aws o digitalocean.