php artisan storage:link uses absolute path

[guoyunhe]

• Laravel Version: 7.18.0
• PHP Version: 7.4.5
• Database Driver & Version: MySQL 5.7.29

After run php artisan storage:link, a symlink is created in public/storage. But it links to absolute path /home/guo/git/webdev/laravel-test/storage/app/public.

This has several disadvantages:

1. When you move or rename the project folder, all links broke. You have to delete and recreate them.
2. It cannot work with both local system and homestead virtual machine.
3. You cannot add absolute symlink to version control.

You won't have all these issues with relative symlink ../storage/app/public.

[driesvints]

Lots of people have been using this for years without a problem so I don't think we should be making any changes here.

[guoyunhe]

It is just an improvement to make the existing feature even better. Lots people don't have issue doesn't mean a few people can be ignored?

[ahinkle]

Feel free to submit a PR for review or create a community package.

[siikamiika]

Also ran into this issue. Seems like it's already possible after #32457 if you install symfony/filesystem and run php artisan storage:link --relative.

At least with default storage directory it would be easier to just use ln -s ../storage/app/public/ public/storage instead.