it turns out that I have a problem with the images. I have tried locally executing php artisan serve and without problems, but when I take the project to an apache server said image does not exist and I cannot obtain it, the apache 2.4 server is running on a win server 2012 locally. The code is the following

<?php
$file="file:///f:/work/sersoc/photos/" . $user_code . '.jpg';
                             if (file_exists($file)) {
                                 $image = file_get_contents($file);
                                 $image_codes = base64_encode($image);
                             } else {
                                 $image_codes = null;
                             }

?>

I tried changing the path to
$file="file://10.10.20.5/work/work/sersoc/photos/" . $user_code . '.jpg';
This is the ip that refers to the disk that I have on the network where I have all the photos, but nothing changed