How to set up file permissions for Laravel?

Question

I\'m using Apache Web Server that has the owner set to _www:_www. I never know what is the best practice with file permissions, for example when I create new La

Answer 1

This worked for me:

cd [..LARAVEL PROJECT ROOT]
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo chmod -R 777 ./storage
sudo chmod -R 777 ./bootstrap/cache/

Only if you use npm (VUE, compiling SASS, etc..) add this:

sudo chmod -R 777 ./node_modules/

What it does:

• Change all file permissions to 644
• Change all folder permissions to 755
• For storage and bootstrap cache (special folders used by laravel for creating and executing files, not available from outside) set permission to 777, for anything inside
• For nodeJS executable, same as above

Note: Maybe you can not, or don't need, to do it with sudo prefix. it depends on your user's permissions, group, etc...