How to fix Error: laravel.log could not be opened?

Question

I'm pretty new at laravel, in fact and I'm trying to create my very first project. for some reason I keep getting this error (I haven't even started coding yet)

Error in exception handler: The stream or file "/var/www/laravel/app/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/compiled.php:8423

I've read this has something to do with permissions but chmod -R 775 storage didn't help at all.

Answer 1

Run following commands and you can add sudo at starting of command depends on your system:

chmod -R 775 storage/framework
chmod -R 775 storage/logs
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache 

Answer 2

Never set a directory to 777. you should change directory ownership. so set your current user that you are logged in with as owner and the webserver user (www-data, apache, ...) as the group. You can try this:

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

then to set directory permission try this:

chmod -R 775 storage
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

Update:

Webserver user and group depend on your webserver and your OS. to figure out what's your web server user and group use the following commands. for nginx use:

ps aux|grep nginx|grep -v grep

for apache use:

ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'

Answer 3

For all Centos 7 users on a Laravel context, there is no need to disable Selinux, just run these commands:

yum install policycoreutils-python -y # might not be necessary, try the below first

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/laravel/storage(/.*)?" # add a new httpd read write content to sellinux for the specific folder, -m for modify
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/laravel/bootstrap/cache(/.*)?" # same as the above for b/cache

restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/ # this command is very important to, it's like a restart to apply the new rules

Lastly, make sure your hosts, ips and virtual hosts are all correctly for remote accessing.

Selinux is intended to restrict access even to root users, so only the necessary stuff might be accessed, at least on a generalist overview, it's extra security, disabling it is not a good practise, there are many links to learn Selinux, but for this case it is not even required.

Answer 4

In my particular case I had a config file generated and cached into the bootstrap/cache/ directory so my steps where:

1. Remove all generated cached files: rm bootstrap/cache/*.php

2. Create a new laravel.log file and apply the update of the permissions on the file using:

   • chmod -R 775 storage

Answer 5

In Laravel, you should set ACL on storage and cache directory so that web server user can read/write on the directory. Open a new terminal and run following:

HTTPDUSER=$(ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\  -f1)

sudo setfacl -dR -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:$(whoami):rwX bootstrap/cache storage/
sudo setfacl -R -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:$(whoami):rwX bootstrap/cache storage/

References:

https://symfony.com/doc/3.4/setup/file_permissions.html#using-acl-on-a-system-that-supports-setfacl-linux-bsd

https://linux.die.net/man/1/setfacl

Answer 6

try this

1. cd /var/www/html
2. setenforce 0
3. service httpd restart