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I am getting confused with this logic. I am using Laravel 5.2 Storage::makeDirectory to create two paths, first ( video/ ) is created correctly and the other ( thumbnails/ ) don't.

$user = 1;
if(!File::exists(public_path() . "/video/$user"))
    Storage::makeDirectory(public_path() . "/video/$user", 0777);
$file = rand(1111111111111, 9999999999999);
$imgpath = public_path() . "/thumbnails/$file";
if(!File::exists($imgpath))
    Storage::makeDirectory($imgpath, 0777);
Here is the permission configuration:
drwxrwxrwx 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jun 28 19:33 thumbnails/
drwxrwxrwx 3 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Jun 29 15:21 video/
I also could create a directory from cli with the given string from $imgpath:
mkdir /home/ubuntu/workspace/site/public/thumbnails/6300643852187
Any suggestions?
                Hm... i don't see any errors at now, can you just try to do mkdir($imgpath, 0777, false); without any conditions?
– GONG
                Jun 29, 2016 at 16:25
                can you provide $imgpath listing, please? (i know this is different each time, but anyway i need to see it)
– GONG
                Jun 29, 2016 at 16:40
                it does not contain anything, since the paths aren't being created because of... Idk... That is my question indeed. Why.
– user3018216
                Jun 29, 2016 at 20:17
if(!Storage::disk('public')->has('image/path/directory/')){
    Storage::disk('public')->makeDirectory('image/path/directory/');
$dr = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$is_dir = File::makeDirectory($dr.'/uploads/images/'.$user.'/thumbs/', 0755, true, true);
0755 is folder permissions
1st true  is recursive creation of folders
2nd true is to force it to do it
Well... I figured out what was going on.
File::exists(public_path() . "/video/$user") is looking for this:

  
/home/ubuntu/workspace/site/public/video/N
And Storage::makeDirectory(public_path() . "/video/$user") is creating a directory in:

  
/home/ubuntu/workspace/site/storage/app/public/video/N
So I can go to site/config/filesystems.php and change the routes for app and app/public ; you can check them by using the helper storage_path('app'). 

But, instead, I decided to save the videos in the storage/app/public/video and storage/app/public/thumbnails, and I am getting some package's error.

But, both paths are writable and should be working by now.
        
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