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

Question

Laravel was displaying to me \"Access denied for user \'homestead\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES)\". One solution for this was clearing the cache and the config cache

Answer 1

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

php artisan cache:clear

Answer 2

maybe you need to chmod 777 -R storage folder. and i think it can also chown www-data:www-data

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Try deleting these cached files:

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

Then run php artisan cache:clear

Answer 5

You may need to clear the autoloader with composer dump-autoload

If that doesn't work you can manually remove the following non-tracked (usually) files to clear the autoloader and cache if they get jammed up:

/bootstrap/cache/packages.php

/bootstrap/cache/services.php

Answer 6

I had the same problem but noticed if you run php artisan config:clear it also by default runs cache:clear right after it so when you run it again there is not cache in it and gives that error. you only need to run php artisan config:clear. I am not sure why cache:clear fails when its ran alone but running the config:clear is a good alternative.

Here is a helpful alias i use to clear everything in the app.

laraclear='php artisan config:cache && php artisan config:clear && php artisan view:clear && php artisan route:clear && php artisan telescope:clear && php artisan debugbar:clear'

Remove any unwanted commands that you do not use in it.