Laravel & Docker: The stream or file "/var/www/html/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Question

This is my folder structure:

+-- root-app-dir
|   +-- docker
|   |   +-- Dockerfile
|   |   +-- nginx.conf
|   +-- src // this is where the Laravel app lives
|   +-- docker-compose.yml

This is my docker-compose.yml

version: '2'

services:
  app:
    build:
      context: ./docker
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    image: lykos/laravel
    volumes:
      - ./src/:/var/www/html/
    networks:
      - app-network

  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    volumes:
      - ./src/:/var/www/html/
      - ./docker/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
    ports:
      - 8000:80
    networks:
      - app-network

  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.7
    ports: 
      - "4306:3306"
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: homestead
      MYSQL_USER: homestead
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: secret
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: secret
    volumes:
      - mysqldata:/var/lib/mysql
    networks:
      - app-network

  phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    links:
      - mysql
    environment:
      PMA_HOST: mysql

volumes:
  mysqldata:
    driver: "local"

networks:
  app-network:
    driver: "bridge"

This is my nginx.conf

server {
  root /var/www/html/public;

  index index.html index.htm index.php;

  server_name _;
  charset utf-8;

  location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
  location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; }

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    # include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    fastcgi_pass app:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
  }

  error_page 404 /index.php;

  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
  }
}

When I run docker-compose up -d and try to access the Laravel app through the htts://localhost:8000 I get this error on my screen

UnexpectedValueException
The stream or file "/var/www/html/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

I have run sudo chown lykos:lykos -R ./src from my root-app-dir but the issue is still there. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

if the above does not work when its added to your .env file the following will:

sudo chmod o+w ./storage/ -R

this will give others permissions without altering user and group permissions.

Answer 2

There are several options, what could be wrong:

1. The storage link isn't properly set, you can read about it here, after launching app container, you should do php artisan storage:link to check whether proper link is there
2. You don't have the proper right for the given folder, from default, logs folder should have www-data writable rights, you can check that by ssh to machine and the do ls -l on files in /var/www/html/[your laravel app], if not, add the proper rights by: chown -R www-data:www-data *
3. Also related to file permissions: you can disable SELinux (but only in dev server, never do it on live) by cehcking the status: sestatus and then enforcing it to 0 by setenforce 0 (however on live server, it's better to leave SElinux running and try to disable the problem by chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t [path to storage folder here]