title: Laravel storage can't be accessed
body: <p>I am writing a system to upload and show some images, however I am confused about the correct way to access them once uploaded.</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function storeImage(Request $request)
  {
  
      $request-&gt;file('image')-&gt;store('public/images');
  
      $filename = md5_file($request-&gt;file('image')) . '.' .  $request-&gt;file('image')-&gt;extension();
      $img = new Image;
      $img-&gt;path = 'storage/images/'.$filename;
      $img-&gt;save();
  
      return back();
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This works fine, and I have symlinked <code>storage</code> as suggested, however if I use the <code>$filename</code> variable from the database I get a 404. What is the correct path to generate to insert as an inline image src attribute here?</p>
  
  <p>The image tag looks like this:
  <code>&lt;img src="storage/images/89cdd31f2e0eeacceff96c2a0abb252f.jpeg"&gt;</code>
  The folder is definitely symlinked as I can follow it in finder.</p>