Not allowed to load local resource with Laravel

Question

I have put in an upload form in my Laravel application, the file uploads and saves it but when I try to display it I get joew:1 Not allowed to load local resource: file://

Answer 1

Your browser is not allowed to directly load that file from your harddrive. In your view you are probably getting something like this:

<img src="C:\xampp\htdocs\socialNet\public\uploads\joew.png" />

You need a URL for the browser to access this image. In your view you need something like:

<img src="{{ asset('uploads/joew.png') }}" />

The asset() function from Laravel creates a URL from the public folder and appends the param you give it. So this will create a URL like: http://localhost/public/uploads/joew.png

Edit: The folder you specified (storage_path) is probably not readable for the browser at all. Change the uploads to public_path('uploads') and it will be accessible.