How to download a file by full path?

Question

Laravel

On the client, I get a response from the server with the full path to the file:

{file: "C:\Projects\events\Backend\storage\app/events/events_31-03-19.xlsx"}

I try to tell the browser to download it like this:
window.location.href = res.file;
But with no result.
The server side is as follows:

return \Response::json(["file" => storage_path('app/'.$path.$filename)]);

Answer 1

Firstly, response should not be in json. symfony response has a binary method that will return a file upload.
Second, check out the laravel storage documentation. Very handy bike protection mechanism