Laravel 5.1 using storage to move the file to a public folder
<p>In my Laravel API call, I use Storage to upload a file.  Then I wold like to rename and move the file to a public directory by using:</p>

<pre><code>    $dest = '/var/www/public/uploads/';
    Storage::disk('local')-&gt;put($filename.'.'.$extension,  File::get($file));
    $oldfilename = $filename.'.'.$extension;
    Storage::move($oldfilename, $dest.$newImageName);
</code></pre>

<p>But instead of moving the file to the $dest directory, I get a folder created with the $dest dir name inside my storage/app folder and the file is copied there.  I have also tried using double quotes around <code>$dest.$newImageName</code> but no success.</p>