Laravel - File Storage - File Urls

You may use the url method to get the URL for a given file. If you are using the local driver, this will typically just prepend /storage to the given path and return a relative URL to the file. If you are using the s3 driver, the fully qualified remote URL will be returned:

    
    use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
    
    $url = Storage::url('file.jpg');
	

When using the local driver, all files that should be publicly accessible should be placed in the storage/app/public directory. Furthermore, you should create a symbolic link at public/storage which points to the storage/app/public directory.

When using the local driver, the return value of url is not URL encoded. For this reason, we recommend always storing your files using names that will create valid URLs.