How to set up file permissions for Laravel

Question

Does it mean that the web server needs access to the storage and vendor folders themselves too or just their current contents?

I assume that what is much better, is changing the owner instead of permissions. I changed all Laravel's files permissions recursively to _www:_www and that made the site work correctly, as if I changed chmod to 777. The problem is that now my text editor asks me for password each time I want to save any file and the same happens if I try to change anything in Finder, like for example copy a file.

What is the correct approach to solve these problems?

1. Change chmod
2. Change the owner of the files to match those of the web server and perhaps set the text editor (and Finder?) to skip asking for password, or make them use sudo
3. Or something else.

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

The permissions for the storage and vendor folders should stay at 775, for obvious security reasons.

However, both your computer and your server Apache need to be able to write in these folders. Ex: when you run commands like php artisan, your computer needs to write in the logs file in storage.

All you need to do is to give ownership of the folders to Apache :

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/vendor
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/project/storage

Then you need to add your computer (referenced by it's username) to the group to which the server Apache belongs. Like so :

sudo usermod -a -G www-data userName

NOTE: Most frequently, groupName is www-data but in your case, replace it with _www

Thank You!