Error laravel log could not be opened

Question

For some reason I keep getting this error (I haven't even started coding yet)

Error in exception handler: The stream or file "/var/www/laravel/app/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/compiled.php:8423

I have read this has something to do with permissions but chmod -R 775 storage didn't help at all.

Answer 1

Hello,

Never use 777 for directories on your live server, but on your own machine, sometimes we need to do more than 775, because

chmod -R 775 storage

Means

7 - Owner can write
7 - Group can write
5 - Others cannot write!

If your webserver is not running as Vagrant, it will not be able to write to it, so you have 2 options:

chmod -R 777 storage

or change the group to your webserver user, supposing it's www-data:

chown -R vagrant:www-data storage

Hope this helps!

Thank You!

Comments

Thanks for this....it worked