Change the storage path in Laravel 5

Question

I want to change the storage path Laravel 5.1 uses to something like /home/test/storage. This has the advantage that these files are not stored in the repositor

Answer 1

Laravel 5.3 is in bootstrap/app.php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Set Storage Path
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This script allows us to override the default storage location used by
| the  application.  You may set the APP_STORAGE environment variable
| in your .env file,  if not set the default location will be used
|
*/

$app->useStoragePath( env( 'APP_STORAGE', base_path() . '/storage' ) );

Answer 2

This works on Laravel 5.2

File: app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function register() {
  ...
  $this->app->useStoragePath(config('what_ever_you_want'));
  ...
}

Answer 3

Calling useStoragePath on your AppServiceProvider wouldn't do the job properly because the AppServiceProvider is called after the config files are loaded. so any use of storage_path in config files would still refer to the old storage path.

In order to properly solve this problem I suggest you extend Application class and then on the constructor of your own class write the followings.

    /**
     * MyApplication constructor.
     */
    public function __construct($basePath = null)
    {
        parent::__construct($basePath);
        // set the storage path
        $this->afterLoadingEnvironment(function () {
            $this->useStoragePath(/*path to your storage directory*/);
        });
    }

Answer 4

Set it up in .env

app.php

'app_storage' => env('APP_STORAGE', storage_path()),

app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

public function register()
{
    $this->app->useStoragePath(config('app.app_storage'));
}

.env

APP_STORAGE=custom_location

Answer 5

if your website is hosted;

move everything from public folder to root folder

$app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return __DIR__;
});

Answer 6

Here is a simple solution of changing the storage path in Laravel 5 like we do in Laravel 4

on bootstrap/app.php

# new storage path
# base_path() -> returns root path
$path_storage = base_path() . "../../storage";

# override already $app->storagePath using the function
$app->useStoragePath($path_storage);

this will make the storage path to be same with the session, views, cache, logs