Laravel在根文件夹外显示图像

Question

I am running a Laravel website on local machine. my laravel is in folder: /Username/bigproject/laravel-project

In the views of my Laravel app there are tags which should show files from /Username/bigproject/images folder (so it's outiside laravel root folder). How can I form the url in the src so this images are displayed?

<img src="/Username/bigproject/images/image1.jpg"> doesn't work, of course.

I've played with disks storages from https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem but had no results.

PS. This project is actually for local use only.

Answer 1

As the web server cant access files out side of its root, you can create a symbolic link so the files can be in two locations at once.

ln -s /Username/bigproject/images /Username/bigproject/larave-project/public 

thus allowing the web-server (ultimately the browser) to use the access the files with <img src="/catPic.jpg">