title: Trouble setting up storage disk for Laravel app on Azure
body: <p>I'm having trouble with a Laravel 6 app on Azure. I'm using TCG/Navigator to build my admin interface. Everything's hunky-dory in local development, but when I push the code to my development site in Azure, items from the storage disk are unavailable. I see this as broken images in the Navigator admin panel.</p>
  
  <p>It looks like Laravel's file storage requires a symlink to operate:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/filesystem#the-public-disk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/filesystem#the-public-disk</a></p>
  
  <p>but symlinks don't appear to be supported in Azure's Windows web apps. I need something else to map /public/storage to /storage/app/public.</p>
  
  <p>I can create a new virtual directory, but that didn't solve the problem. I mapped "/storage" to "site\wwwroot\storage\app\public" but I'm still seeing broken images in the Navigator admin panel.</p>
  
  <p>I found this issue in Navigator's repo:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/issues/417#issuecomment-304525223" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/issues/417#issuecomment-304525223</a></p>
  
  <p>and it seems like just the fix I need, but it's not working, either.</p>
  
  <p>I've added:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        'azure' =&gt; [
              'driver' =&gt; 'local',
              'root' =&gt; storage_path('..\public\storage'),
              'url' =&gt; env('APP_URL').'/storage',
              'visibility' =&gt; 'public',
          ],
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to filesystems.php. In voyager.php, I see:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    'storage' =&gt; [
          'disk' =&gt; env('FILESYSTEM_DRIVER', 'public'),
      ],
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so to leave things as is (ie, working) in local dev, I've added an application setting to my web app:</p>
  
  <p>FILESYSTEM_DRIVER, set to 'azure'</p>
  
  <p>I know that my Azure web app is trying to use the azure filesystem because I initially forgot to push the updated code and my app told me it was missing.</p>
  
  <p>So now I think my problem might be that I don't have the right values in the definition of the azure storage disk. Got any ideas? Or maybe suggestions on a different approach to try to get Laravel's file storage working on Azure?</p>