Laravel XAMPP Mac The stream or file "/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Question

I am trying to run an existing Laravel project on my localhost but when I try to run the dam thing I get this error:

The stream or file "/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

I have tried the following:

chmod -R 775 storage and chmod -R 777 storage

Still nothing, I have even tried to do chgrp -R www-data my-project and I get this error in terminal

chgrp: www-data: illegal group name

What am I doing wrong?

if it was linux, I would tell you to check the owner of the file, it should be the virtual host owner if it was set. Maybe windows needs that too. Check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24141556/xampp-how-to-make-apache-webserver-owner-of-folder-htdocs — Taha Paksu, Dec 03 '18 at 20:51
@AmitozDeol When I do that, I get this error: file_put_contents(/storage/framework/cache/data/9c/17/9c17a99b76c7d84c467be3b9936a19ac171000a1): failed to open stream: No such file or directory — user979331, Dec 03 '18 at 20:53
@user979331 do you have a storage/framework/cache/data directory? — loic.lopez, Dec 04 '18 at 00:06
@loic.lopez after checking the data folder does not exists.....but I copied this from a server, how was it able run on a server. — user979331, Dec 04 '18 at 04:49
@user979331 you can juste create the data folder by : `mkdir -p storage/framework/cache/data` — loic.lopez, Dec 04 '18 at 18:13

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '19 at 11:44

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Navigate to the project directory and run

sudo chmod -R 777 storage/*

answered Apr 26 '19 at 11:44

Victor Ejiogu

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Ismoil Shifoev · Answer 2 · 2018-12-04T06:09:21.797

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This is my solution.

First you need to run php artisan cache:clear from the project directory, then chmod -R 777 app/storage and finally composer dump-autoload and now it will be working fine..

illegal group name actually means that the group you're specifying(after www-data going username).You need to either create the group, stop specifying a group, or specify a group that exists.

edited Dec 04 '18 at 06:09

answered Dec 04 '18 at 05:55

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try composer dump-autoload – Ismoil Shifoev Dec 04 '18 at 06:08
I tried that and it says Generated optimized autoload files containing 4054 classes, but the error still remains. – user979331 Dec 04 '18 at 06:16
about ilegal group name when you try www-data you need using username not name of project. Or using specify a group that exist – Ismoil Shifoev Dec 04 '18 at 06:19
In addition to Ismoils solution:You have to change the permission on your project folder:Right click>getInfo>Sharing&Permissions and change them to read&write and make sure you include all the files and folders inside as well: – RileyManda Mar 12 '19 at 08:45
This worked for me, thanks! After about 20 minutes breaking my head. – Erich García Sep 21 '19 at 15:47

Laravel XAMPP Mac The stream or file "/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied

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This is my solution.