title: Get full path to file with Laravel Storage
body: <p>I am using the Laravel 5.6 Storage API to store my files in <code>public/storage/images</code>. This works fine. When I want to retrieve a full URL for one of these files, I use</p>
  
  <pre><code>$path = Storage::disk('public')-&gt;url('images/' . $url);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This returns</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://localhost:1234/public/storage/images/foobar.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:1234/public/storage/images/foobar.jpg</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But since my server is set up to ignore <code>public</code>, this address does not return the image. Instead, this address:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><a href="http://localhost:1234/storage/images/foobar.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:1234/storage/images/foobar.jpg</a></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>returns the image. Is there any way to produce this address using Laravel's API, rather than doing an ugly find &amp; replace?</p>