Maatwebsite import doesnt work in ubunutu

Question

When I try to import an excel sheet using Maatwebsite 3.1 version on server which is in Ubuntu, I am getting such type of error.

Error:

Maatwebsite \ Excel \ Exceptions \ NoTypeDetectedException

No ReaderType or WriterType could be detected. Make sure you either pass a valid extension to the filename or pass an explicit type.

Controller

$path = $request->file('mcafile')->getRealPath();
$data = \Excel::import(new UsersImport,$path);

But the same import excel code works fine in my local windows machine. Every code and file that I upload are same. But works different in local and in server. Can anyone please help.

Solution

So the issue was with the getRealPath(). Initially I was trying to get the path by,

$path = $request->file('mcafile')->getRealPath();

But now I changed it by storing it to a temp and retrieve the path from there, and send it to the function. Like this,

$path1 = $request->file('mcafile')->store('temp'); 
$path=storage_path('app').'/'.$path1;  
$data = \Excel::import(new UsersImport,$path);