laravel - storage:link not working on hosting cPanel

Question

I've created a storage link with php artisan storage:link and it's working totally fine on localhost, However, when I deploy my project on a shared hosting, it does not render any images. This is my hosting directory structure:

- home2/username
:   + other hosting folders
:   - MyLaravelWebSite
:   :   + other_laravel_folders
:   :   - storage
:   :   :   - app
:   :   :   :   - public
:   :   :   :   :   -images
:   :   :   :   :   :   * some-image.jpg
:   :   :   :   * gitignore
:   :   :   + framework
:   :   :   + logs
:   - public_html
:   :   + assets
:   :   + storage // symlink
:   :   * index.php

Images are uploading without any issue, but when I try to render them they do not render, while they're being rendered absolutely fine on localhost. I think the symbolic link is not working. How can I make it work?

P.s: I don't have any access of CLI on cPanel.

Answer 1

You can use PHP and Laravel helper methods to do the same, just run this code once (e.g. add it in your controller and call it once) to create storage link manually:

use IlluminateSupportFacadesFile;

File::link(
    storage_path('app/public'), public_path('storage')
);