Laravel not storing files from request

Question

I got form with file upload named "image". Form is working and i'm getting image but for some reason it's not stored. this is the code I use to store image:

$path = $request->image->store('storage/uploads');

before that I check

$request->hasFile('image')

and later I'm saving $path. Path is successfully saved and when i check it it's really storage/uploads/radnomid but there is no file

Solution 1

Sorry for posting my own answer but problem was that by default laravel public disk does not upload to public directory. Settings needed to be changed like this: config/filesystems.php

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

and then simply:

$path = $request->image->store('storage/uploads','public');

Solution 2

If your filesystems.php configs were default then

$path = $request->image->store('storage/uploads');

saved your files not in storage/uploads but in storage/app/storage/uploads.

And your current accepted answer is not really good because public_path() intended to be used for storing template files not user uploads. According to official docs uploads should be used in storage/ folder with a symbolic link from public/storage/ but not in public/.

Read more in https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem#the-public-disk