So I imported my laravel project in web hostinger for web hosting, upon adding a book which consists of uploading an image, it reflects on the database but it does not store the image. I used php artisan storage:link in my laravel project.

public function store(Request $request)
    {
        if ($request->has('photo')) {
            $file = $request->file('photo');
            $extension = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();

            $filename = time() . '.' . $extension;
            $file->storeAs('storage/' . $filename);
        }

        // Create a new book
        $book = Book::create([
            'title' => $request->title,
            'author' => $request->author,
            'category_id' => $request->category_id,
            'quantity' => $request->quantity,
            'available_books' => $request->quantity, // Set available_books equal to quantity
            'isbn' => $request->isbn,
            'photo' => $filename ? $filename : null,
        ]);
    
        $book->save();

        return redirect()->route('admin.dashboard')->with('success_add', 'Book added successfully!');
    }

public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $book = Book::findOrFail($id);

        // Update fields
        $book->title = $request->input('title');
        $book->author = $request->input('author');
        $book->category_id = $request->input('category_id');
        $book->quantity = $request->input('quantity');
        $book->isbn = $request->input('isbn');

        // Handle image upload
        if ($request->hasFile('image')) {
            // Delete previous image if exists
            if ($book->photo) {
                Storage::delete('storage/' . $book->photo);
            }

            // Upload new image
            $file = $request->file('image');
            $extension = $file->getClientOriginalExtension();
            $filename = time() . '.' . $extension;
            $file->storeAs('storage/', $filename);
            $book->photo = $filename;
        }

        $book->save();

        return redirect()->route('admin.dashboard')->with([
            'success_inv' => 'Book updated successfully',
            'updatedBookId' => $id
        ]);
    }

I tried to change

$file->storeAs('storage/' . $filename);

to

$file->storeAs('public/' . $filename);

but still does not store the image uploaded