Capifony + Symfony2 Failed to write cache file

Question

When deploying my dev environment to my external dev server using capistrano I always get the following error:

RuntimeException: Failed to write cache file "/var/www/xyz.co.uk/app/cache/dev/classes.php".

Then I have to log into my development server and delete my app/cache/dev/ directory.

Here is my development.rb file:

server 'x.xx.xx.xxx', :app, :web, :db, :primary => true
ssh_options[:port] = 1234
ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true
set :deploy_to, "/var/www/xyz.co.uk"
set :symfony_env_prod, "dev"
set :branch, "develop"

# Need to clear *_dev controllers
set :clear_controllers,     false

And my deploy.rb file:

set :stage_dir, 'app/config/deploy' # needed for Symfony2 only
set :stages, %w(production staging development)
require 'capistrano/ext/multistage'

set :application,           "xyz.co.uk"
set :user,                  "root"  # The server's user for deploys

set :normalize_asset_timestamps, false

set :repository,            "[email protected]:xyz/xyz.co.uk.git"
set :scm,                   :git
set :keep_releases,         3
set :use_sudo,              false
set :web_path,              "web"
set :shared_files,          ["app/config/parameters.yml"]
set :shared_children,       [app_path + "/logs", web_path + "/uploads"]
set :use_composer,          true
set :update_vendors,        true
set :dump_assetic_assets,   true
set :deploy_via,            :remote_cache

#logger.level = Logger::MAX_LEVEL

Answer 1

I have this in my deploy.rb file to set the permissions on the cache directory:

after "deploy:update_code" do
  capifony_pretty_print "--> Ensuring cache directory permissions"
  run "setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX #{latest_release}/#{cache_path}"
  run "setfacl -dR -m u:www-data:rwX -m u:`whoami`:rwX #{latest_release}/#{cache_path}"
  capifony_puts_ok
end