Capistrano mkdir permission denied

Question

When I run cap production deploy I get cannot create directory ‘/var/www/application/repo’: Permission denied.

So far I\'ve created deploy user

Answer 1

Had the same error here, following the good tutorial of GoRails "Deploy Ruby on Rails To Production in 2019", where he create a user "deploy" and set to deploy the app in "home/deploy". Don't forget that you have to use the username created on the server. So deploy's directory is "home/USERNAME".

Answer 2

By default Capistrano 3 deploys to /var/www which is not writable by deploy user. You need to change the ownership of /var/www to deploy user using the following command.

sudo chown deploy:deploy /var/www/

After this, you should be able to deploy your app without permission error.

Answer 3

Credit to Bob Roberts.

I think this should be an answer as its easy to miss your comment. I know I missed it few times.

sudo chown -R deploy:deploy /var/www/

or whatever your username is

sudo chown -R username:username /var/www/