Laravel Impossible to Create Root Directory

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Zach Handley picture Zach Handley · Dec 28, 2017 · Viewed 43k times · Source

I've checked out the other posts about this, mine seems to be unique for some reason

Essentially what I'm trying to do is store uploaded photos in the public directory for easy access, however when I store them I'm trying to store them in a user specific folder, so

/public/photos/$User->id/$filename.jpg

Right now I have Dropzone uploading the file, and I've added to my filesystem.php this statement

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

So in theory when I access that using 

Storage::disk('public_uploads')

it should retrieve the correct path

Here's my controller as well

$User = User::find(Auth::user()->id);
$Photo = Request::file('photo');
Storage::disk('public_uploads')->put("photos/$User->id", $Photo);

Then I get this error from Laravel on upload

{message: "Impossible to create the root directory "/censoredfilesystem/public/Photos/1".",…}

No idea where the period is coming from and any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks all!

  • Zach

Answer

Zach Handley picture Zach Handley · Dec 29, 2017

Fixed it unknowningly by setting permissions according to comments, I used

chown -R www-data:root .

in the root of my directory

Edit: I used www-data:root, meaning set the owner of everything inside the Laravel directory to www-data (the webserver) and root being root obviously. If you do this you should do it with a non-root user or just to www-data

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