FIle could not be opened in append mode: failed to open stream: Permission denied laradock

Question

I'm setting up laradock (Setup for Multiple Projects) following the official documentation from the Laradock in my local machine.

After installation I installed the laravel through workspace container bash. I did configured the config file for the app in nginx/sites/ directory and in /etc/hosts file.

While visiting the development url I'm getting the following error message:

The stream or file "/var/www/laravel-api/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened in append mode: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Answer 1

This worked for me:

chown -R www-data:www-data "project foldername"

Answer 2

If you are still facing the issue even after changing the permission and owner of file, just check for the OS of you Linux server. Login to your server

$ ssh user@server-ip

check your OS running on linux server

$ cat /etc/os-release

//output

NAME="CentOS Linux"
VERSION="7 (Core)"
ID="centos"
ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"
VERSION_ID="7"

If it is CentOS, you need to disable Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) if enabled. Check for SELinux status

$ sestatus

If it is enabled, then

$ setenforce Permissive

Or

$ sudo setenforce 0

Have a good day!

Answer 3

you have to enter the workspace first by typing "docker-compose exec workspace bash"(without quotes)

To give a write permission to a single file,

chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/logs/laravel.log

or

chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/logs

or

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/logs/laravel.log

when the same error appears but different folders or files, do the same thing only change the folder name

example :

chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/logs

chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/framework/views

chmod -R 777 /var/www/laravel-api/storage/framework/sessions

Answer 4

If you aren't running your application as root on your web server, then it wont have write access based on the permissions you've provided.

Checked from workspace container bash. storage/logs/ directory has drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 1 07:37 logs

The error is complaining about permission denial for opening in append mode - it doesn't have permission to write to the file, only root does.

What you need to do is make your web server group the owner of the storage directory:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel-api/storage/

The www-data can be switched out for whatever group your web server is associated with.

To avoid completely repeating an amazing and complete answer, I recommend you give this answer a read:

How to set up file permissions for Laravel?

Answer 5

Give group write access to /storage/logs/

sudo chmod g+w storage/logs

Answer 6

You need to run the following command. It works for me:

step 1:

sudo chmod -R +rwX .

step 2:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) .