Laravel showing "Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions"

Question

If the data directory doesn't exist under (storage/framework/cache/data), then you will have this error.

This data directory doesn't exist by default on a fresh/new installation.

Creating the data directory manually at (storage/framework/cache) should fix this issue.

Try deleting these cached files under bootstrap folder:

/bootstrap/cache/packages.php
/bootstrap/cache/services.php
/bootstrap/cache/config.php

Then run php artisan cache:clear

Calling

php artisan config:cache 

before

php artisan cache:clear

fixed the issue.

Just only add folder named data in storage/framework/cache/ and try:

php artisan cache:clear

First try:

Check if there is a "data" folder inside "storage/framework/cache/". If there is not, then create it manually. (create a new folder with name "data")

Option 2:

If there is a "data" folder inside "storage/framework/cache/". Remove ALL existing folders inside there.

Then final, running this:

php artisan cache:clear

This should fix this issue: "Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions."

Calling the following 4 commands should fix most of the permission issues on laravel.

sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
chmod -R 775 storage
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

Basically, chown -R $USER:www-data what this does is it set current user $USER as owner and www-data as group and chmod -R 775 gives 7 to user,7 to group and 5 to other.

#PS: You need to run above command from the laravel project directory, else, you need to provide full path like /var/www/project_name/storage