Laravel 8: File storage issue. store($file) saves, download($table->file) does not find

[alsuara]

• Laravel Version: 8.50.0
• PHP Version: 7.3.20
• Database Driver & Version: 10.4.13-MariaDB

Description:

According to the Laravel's file storage documentation ( https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem ) I am performing a store() operation to save an uploaded file in my local disk, but then, when I use download() to have it back, I receive a «file not found error».

Perhaps I am mistaken nd someone can tell me what I am doing wrong, but for the case, I preferred to rise the issue.

Thanks and best regard.

Steps To Reproduce:

I am trying to upload a pdf to my local storage doing: $validated['pdf'] = $request->pdf->store(''); and then $model->update($validated); This stores a random-name with «pdf» extension file in the database (for example jf9T0Oo9OK7EshXjsxjNghKHczShLWHa4mwYCMg7.pdf ).

Then I try to donwload the file doing return response()->download($model->pdf); but I receive an error:

Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\Exception\FileNotFoundException
The file "71NgZS0q3TMzbe8eSHkH36kfPIFxLrnbqNnmMyNh.pdf" does not exist

In order to understand what is happening, I have tried to do it using storage_path() and I could see that in the path, the directory «app» under «storage» is missing, so I could make the donwload with the following turnaround:

return response()->download(storage_path('app/' . $model->pdf));

(Am am working in a local installation of XAMPP for OS X 7.3.20)

[NickSdot]

Try $path = $request->file('fileInRequest')->store('pathToSaveFileTo');. You can dd($request->file()); to check how to access the file.

Maybe better to close this issue and instead start a discussion here:
https://github.com/laravel/framework/discussions

[alsuara]

With your version, the same problem persists (when tried to be downloaded, the uploaded file it's not found) as the problem doesn't seem to be in the store() method, but in the file() and download() methods, so it needs the same turnaround (using storage_path()) to download the file.

The storage is correctly done as documented in https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#file-uploads, but storage_path() is not mentioned in https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#downloading-files neither in https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/responses#file-responses.

It seems that at least, a documentation issue persists.