title: Laravel public storage folder not found
body: <p>Uploaded laravel project files to production server and ran <code>php artisan storage:link</code> command to create symlink to <code>public/storage</code> from <code>storage/app/public</code> folder and got message symlink created. But I forgot to delete the public storage folder from the local.</p>
  
  <p>After uploading an image file, I could not access it and was getting 404 not found error exception. I then deleted the <code>public/storage</code> folder and ran <code>php artisan storage:link</code> again but got the message <code>The "public/storage" directory already exists.</code> but it's not there and I am not able to access images uploaded in the <code>storage/app/public/</code> folder.</p>
  
  <p>How can I fix this?</p>