Php – Laravel App when hosted saves images in the storage/app/ instead of storage/app/public, but saves correctly locally

community,
I have an issue with my Laravel application,
when saving images in my app, it works locally and keeps them in the correct directory, however, when I host the application to my server and try to test the application online, it now holds the images in the storage/app/ instead of the standard storage/app/public/ directory.

My storage link is in place and my function to save the image is also in place.
here is my filesystem setup

'public' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
        'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
        'visibility' => 'public',
        'throw' => false,
    ],

For example, let’s look at the save user process (using livewire).

$data["image"] = str_replace('public/', '', $this->image->store('users'));
        $data["password"] = Hash::make("password");
        $data['status'] = $data['status'] == 1 ? User::STATUS_ACTIVE : User::STATUS_INACTIVE;

        $this->user->create($data);
        $this->resetFields();
        $this->emit("success", "User-created successfully!");

So the URL that is being generated afterwards looks like this

http://127.0.0.1:8000/storage/users/BYHZwuu03z4HikfcncH5hDdpjdbN7jPaQejbZ0fx.jpg

and to display this image,

<img src="{{ asset('storage/'.$user->image) }}" height="60px" width="60px" 
 class="rounded-pill">

When hosted online,the image doesnt display, and the link looks like this
http://{baseUrl(hidden)}/storage/users/eFJ8MLBUcREFlXpJQ5JvTQ4ZfeUYcxzB7Dc8IRy3.jpg

What could be the issue ?

Right now i don’t know why the image isnt displaying,