Public disk and symbolic links in Laravel - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to create a symbolic link for the public disk in Laravel.

Laravel

php artisan storage:[1]

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Alink

Bmake

Ccreate

Dinstall

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Common Mistakes

Using 'make' or 'create' instead of 'link' causes the command to fail.

Forgetting to run this command after configuring the public disk.

In Laravel, the command php artisan storage:link creates a symbolic link from public/storage to storage/app/public.

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medium

Complete the code to define the public disk in Laravel's config/filesystems.php.

Laravel

'public' => [
    'driver' => 'local',
    'root' => storage_path('app/[1]'),
    'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
    'visibility' => 'public',
],

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Aapp

Bstorage

Cpublic

Dfiles

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Common Mistakes

Using 'storage' or 'app' instead of 'public' causes files to be stored in the wrong place.

Not matching this folder with the symbolic link target.

The public disk points to the storage/app/public directory, so the root is set to storage_path('app/public').

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hard

Fix the error in the code to store a file on the public disk.

Laravel

Storage::disk('[1]')->put('example.txt', 'Hello World');

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Alocal

Bprivate

Cdefault

Dpublic

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Common Mistakes

Using 'local' stores files in storage/app but not publicly accessible.

Using 'private' or 'default' disks that may not exist or have wrong permissions.

To store files accessible publicly, use the 'public' disk, which points to the linked storage folder.

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hard

Fill both blanks to generate a URL for a file stored on the public disk.

Laravel

$url = Storage::disk('[1]')->[2]('example.txt');

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Apublic

Burl

Cpath

Dlocal

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Common Mistakes

Using 'path' instead of 'url' returns the server path, not a web URL.

Using 'local' disk returns a path not accessible publicly.

Use Storage::disk('public')->url('filename') to get the public URL of a stored file.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to check if a file exists on the public disk and delete it if it does.

Laravel

if (Storage::disk('[1]')->[2]('example.txt')) {
    Storage::disk('[3]')->delete('example.txt');
}

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Apublic

Bexists

Clocal

Dmissing

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Common Mistakes

Using 'missing' instead of 'exists' reverses the logic.

Using different disks for check and delete causes unexpected behavior.

Use exists to check if the file is present on the public disk, then delete it from the same disk.