From 8493c6943bcc756f8256a19a21749df5e8a8762c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Freek <freek@spatie.be>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 09:35:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] create medialibrary base directory if it does not exist

---
 src/MediaLibraryRepository.php | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/MediaLibraryRepository.php b/src/MediaLibraryRepository.php
index 454ea6bf2..81ed5f9a9 100644
--- a/src/MediaLibraryRepository.php
+++ b/src/MediaLibraryRepository.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public function add($file, MediaLibraryModelInterface $model, $collectionName, $
             throw new Exception('File '.$file.' does not exist');
         }
 
-        $this->addIgnoreFileToMediaLibraryDirectory();
+        $this->createMediaLibraryBaseDirectory();
 
         $media = $this->createMediaForFile($file, $collectionName, $addAsTemporary);
 
@@ -266,13 +266,27 @@ private function mediaIsPreloaded(MediaLibraryModelInterface $model)
     }
 
     /**
-     * Copy the gitignore stub to medialibrary directory.
+     * Create the base medialibrary directory if it does not exist.
      */
-    private function addIgnoreFileToMediaLibraryDirectory()
+    private function createMediaLibraryBaseDirectory()
     {
-        $destinationDirectory = config('laravel-medialibrary.publicPath');
+        $mediaLibraryBaseDirectory = config('laravel-medialibrary.publicPath');
+
+        if (!File::exists($mediaLibraryBaseDirectory))
+        {
+            File::makeDirectory($mediaLibraryBaseDirectory, '493', true, true);
+        }
+
+        $this->addIgnoreFileToDirectory($mediaLibraryBaseDirectory);
+    }
 
-        $destinationFile = $destinationDirectory.'/.gitignore';
+    /**
+     * Copy the gitignore stub to medialibrary directory.
+     * @param string $directory
+     */
+    private function addIgnoreFileToDirectory($directory)
+    {
+        $destinationFile = $directory.'/.gitignore';
         if (!file_exists($destinationFile)) {
             File::copy(__DIR__.'/stubs/gitignore.txt', $destinationFile);
         }