Vagrant vm + apache permission denied for mkdir()

Question

I am using vagrant to run my vm using ubuntu, apache, etc. This is running on my OSX host.

Everything works fine until my php application tries to create a folder, files within that folder, etc. I get Permission denied. What am I missing on the provision / configuration of the vagrant file?

Answer 1

in this case, if you're using Vagrant + Apache2.

the solution is:

1. edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf;
2. Search for User and Group directives

3. Change these lines to:

   User vagrant
   Group vagrant
   

4. run sudo service apache2 restart

its not possible to change /vagrant directory owner to www-data (apache user);

Anyway, it works for me.

Answer 2

Edit Vagrantfile

  config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www", owner: "www-data", group: "www-data"