laravel.log permission denied error

Question

I am working on Laravel 4. On remote server I took backup of old laravel.log and created new one and restored old one again by removing newly created one. Since then I am getting error:

Error in exception handler: The stream or file "/var/www/stage/webapp/app/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/staging_html/webapp/vendor/monolog/monolog/src/Monolog/Handler/StreamHandler.php:84

I even change mode and but it did not work either. It's not happening across system, just a particular page.

I am on Amazon AWS

Answer 1

You recreated the file, so the permissions have changed, and apache can no longer access it. Run this in command line to set the permissions:

chown www-data:www-data /var/www/stage/webapp/app/storage/logs/laravel.log

That's if you're using apache. It changes ownership of the file to apache (web server). If the web server user isn't www-data. Find out by typing:

ls -l

In the command line to see what user owns the other files in your laravel directory. Replace www-data:www-data with the user that owns the other web files. To be clear the left side of the colon is user group and the right side is the user. If you have a specific user group that needs access to those files as well like git or ftp, you may need to set it like this:

git:www-data
ftp:www-data
group:user //generic example

It just depends on your access requirements. If you have questions let me know.