Laravel maat excell unable to access stored csv fi

Question

Laravel 5.6.39

Matt Excel 3.1

I am able to store the csv file on storage/app/public directory using

$excel = (new ReportExport($results))->store('public/' . $fileName, 'local');

updated my code to 3.1

$excel = Excel::store(new ReportExport($results), 'public/' . $fileName, 'local');

I also created the simlink uisng

php artisan storage:link 

as described in doc

and able to get the correct link to file using

$path = asset('storage/app/public/' . $fileName);

but if I am trying to use this link in a button to download the file, I am getting 404 error.

Answer 1

The path will be

http://localhost/mysite/public/storage/49c486c6dc126abc4224b606706f010b.csv

instead of

http://localhost/mysite/public/storage/app/public/49c486c6dc126abc4224b606706f010b.csv

so the url should be created by $path = asset('storage/' . $fileName);

Answer 2

If you have created simlink then this should work.

localhost/mysite/public/storage/49c486c6dc126abc4224b606706f010b.csv