Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible in laravel (Plesk in ubuntu 18)

Posted on March 7, 2021

Hi all,

I am tryign to host my app in ubuntu server with Plesk. I also have ran php artisan storage:link command for create Symbolic for my storage folder in laravel. But I cannot access my images that I have uploaded to my storage folder Symbolic to public/storage folder. Its says 403 error. Then I check my server error log. It has below warning.

Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible

Anyone can help me on this?

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KFSys

March 7, 2021

Hi @edexercom,

The Symbolic Link needs to be owned by the same user and group that’s owning the Website Folder otherwise you won’t be able to access it.

To give you the proper answer, I’ll recommend providing a little bit more information such as the permissions and ownerships of the folders that lead to the symbolic link. It’s 99% a permissions/ownership issue!

Regards, KFSys