Tip: Getting this to work on Google cloud engine

[bmellink]

Prerequisites

• [ x] Able to reproduce the behaviour outside of your code, the problem is isolated to Laravel Excel.
• [ x] Checked that your issue isn't already filed.
• [ x] Checked if no PR was submitted that fixes this problem.

Versions

• PHP version: 7.4
• Laravel version: 8
• Nova version: 3.27
• Package version: 1.2

Description

Server error 500 when downloading Excel file because the folder /storage/framework/cache/laravel-excel can not be created at run time by Google App Engine.

Steps to Reproduce

Vanilla install

Tip to solve - recommend adding this to the readme or manual:

• the GAE deploy uses the .gitignore files to determine which directories should be created on the Google App Engine platform
• Ensure the folder exists locally (which will be the case in most cases as you probably did run some tests)
• create a dummy file dummy.txt in /storage/framework/cache/laravel-excel
• modify the .gitignore file on /storage/framework/cache/.gitignore and add these 2 lines:

!laravel-excel
!laravel-excel/dummy.txt

• The total .gitignore file should read something like:

*
!data/
!.gitignore
!laravel-excel
!laravel-excel/dummy.txt

Expected behavior:

Actual behavior:

Additional Information

Any additional information, configuration or data that might be necessary to reproduce the issue.

[patrickbrouwers]

If there should be changes to the documentation, please PR it to the docs repo: https://github.com/SpartnerNL/laravel-excel-docs