diff --git a/build/boot-container.sh b/build/boot-container.sh
index d67c57c..731df0e 100755
--- a/build/boot-container.sh
+++ b/build/boot-container.sh
@@ -29,10 +29,12 @@ rm -f /app/public/hot
 echo "[boot] Building Vite assets..."
 npm run build
 
-# Create the storage symlink after volumes are mounted
-# (public/storage → storage/app/public)
+# Create RELATIVE storage symlink (public/storage → ../storage/app/public).
+# Must be relative: Caddy serves the bind-mounted ./public from the host, where
+# the container's /app/* paths do not exist — an absolute symlink would dangle
+# from Caddy's view and return 404 for every /storage/* request.
 echo "[boot] Creating storage symlink..."
-php artisan storage:link --force 2>/dev/null || true
+ln -sfn ../storage/app/public public/storage
 
 # Run database migrations
 echo "[boot] Running migrations..."