How to setup laravel file permission once and for all

Question

I have followed this upvoted answer and did the following:

sudo chown -R my-user:www-data /var/www/domain.com/
sudo find /var/www/domain.com/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find /var/www/domain.com/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/domain.com/storage /var/www/domain.com/bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx /var/www/domain.com/storage /var/www/domain.com/bootstrap/cache

Everything works fine, but whenever a directory (within the storage directory) is created by my-user and not www-data user, the webserver can't write to it or vice versa. Unless I rerun those commands after the directory has been created.

Notes: sometimes I run commands with my-user that create directories, and sometimes the www-data user create directories. (within the storage directory).

Also, my-user is already within the www-data group.

How can I avoid permission errors? without running all those commands again.

Answer 1

Give this a try:

# give the newly created files/directories the group of the parent directory 
# e.g. the laravel group

sudo find $project_Path/bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
sudo find $project_Path/storage -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

# let newly created files/directories inherit the default owner 
# permissions up to maximum permission of rwx e.g. new files get 664, 
# folders get 775

sudo setfacl -R -d -m g::rwx ./storage
sudo setfacl -R -d -m g::rwx ./bootstrap/cache

Answer 2

how 'bout sudo chown -R $USER:$USER * on your root of laravel project folder?
or
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER [laravel folder name] if you're outside/ in parent directory of you're laravel folder / project ?