File Storage

Store and retrieve files across local and cloud disks

Laravel provides a unified API for file storage across local disks, public directories, and cloud services like S3.

Laravel abstracts file systems into 'disks'. Switch between local, public, and S3 storage with one config change.

local

Private app storage

disk

public

Web-accessible files

disk

AWS cloud storage

disk

Same Storage API for all disks

PHP

// config/filesystems.php
'disks' => [
    'local' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app'),
    ],
    'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
        'url' => env('APP_URL') . '/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
    ],
    's3' => [
        'driver' => 's3',
        'key' => env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'),
        'secret' => env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'),
        'region' => env('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'),
        'bucket' => env('AWS_BUCKET'),
    ],
],

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