Asset link not rendered after SSG

[davidedistaso]

I deploy Statamic using SSG on Netlify.

I wanted to share a link to a PDF on my website. I created an asset container using the "public" disk and uploaded my pdf there.

'public' => [ 'driver' => 'local', 'root' => storage_path('app/public'), 'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage', 'visibility' => 'public', ],

I then created a blueprint with an asset field type which uses the newly made container.

In my template I use {{ assets:url }} to show a link to the file (which is a PDF). Everything works locally, but when I deploy to Netlify {{ assets:url }} doesn't render the link to the asset. If I go the asset's address, I get a 404 error. I already tried php artisan storage:link but nothing changes.

[duncanmcclean]

I think you'll need to add a 'copy' to the SSG config (config/statamic/ssg.php) to copy files from storage/app/public to storage to make that work.

[davidedistaso]

Tried redeploying after adding this to config/statamic/ssg.php
'copy' => [ public_path('css') => 'css', public_path('js') => 'js', storage_path('app/public') => 'storage', ],

Also tried

'copy' => [ public_path('css') => 'css', public_path('js') => 'js', 'storage/app/public' => 'storage', ],

But no difference, is that what you suggested doing?

[duncanmcclean]

Is storage/app/public included in version control? If not, it'll have nothing to copy.

I'd recommend using the assets filesystem that ships with a default Statamic install to store your PDF. It'll mean your PDF will live in public/assets. Be sure to update the disk in your asset container and in the SSG config.

[davidedistaso]

Forgot to delete .gitignore, works perfectly, thank you so much!