Laravel - The stream or file failed to open stream: Permission denied

Question

I know this is a common problem on Laravel, but I think I'm having a different issue or else the settings aren't being updated.

I've looked at this Laravel The stream or file "/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied and this How to set up File Permissions for Laravel 5 (and others) but I still have this issue:

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

When I do this after going into the logs directory: $ ls -l laravel.log

I get this:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache apache 0 Feb 8 2018 laravel.log

I'm on CentOS which is why the group/user is apache not www-data. Yet even though the log is created by apache and apache is the owner and group, it can't open the stream? Does this mean Laravel is executing as another user? I'm a bit confused here, sorry :/

I've cleared the cache using artisan and also ran composer dump-autload but I can't seem to progress in my application because the log doesn't get written to.

Update: My php application is running as nobody when I run

echo exec('whoami');

Is this the problem and how do I fix that?

I'm not expert with SELinux, but give a shot and run this command: `setenforce 0` (temporally disable selinux). If you already added to the correct group and set permissions, but still see Permission denied, much likely is SELinux. — webmasterdro, Mar 24 '19 at 03:46
@webmasterdro Hmm okay, hopefully this can help another advise on a good long-term solution, as disabling it _seems_ to not be 100% correct practice - just guessing — Summer Developer, Mar 24 '19 at 03:49
No, it isn't. That's why I said for you to just test, and if it works. And you're temporally disabling. :) — webmasterdro, Mar 24 '19 at 03:51
@webmasterdro when I run your command I get `setenforce: SELinux is disabled` and the log still isn't writable - same error — Summer Developer, Mar 24 '19 at 03:54
Try give permission 0755 to /storage/logs and not to the log itself. — webmasterdro, Mar 24 '19 at 03:58
@webmasterdro already did that :( makes no difference... something else is up — Summer Developer, Mar 24 '19 at 03:59
And to the __storage__? Also, the right command for SELinux (when enabled) is `chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/laravelwebapp/storage`, and try that `chmod -R 0755 /var/www/html/laravelwebapp/storage` — webmasterdro, Mar 24 '19 at 04:02
Change your `storage` folder permissions from `755` to `777` and see if it works. If yes, your laravel app is executed as some another user. — nice_dev, Mar 24 '19 at 05:17
Just a small test. Try to write file into `DocumentRoot` with the same script. — SiZE, Mar 24 '19 at 06:14
@SiZE sorry, what do you mean check `open_basedir` value? if i do `ini_get('open_basedir')` in the root I get an empty string... — Summer Developer, Apr 16 '19 at 23:35
@SiZE also see my update, the scripts are running as `nobody` — Summer Developer, Apr 17 '19 at 02:12
@webmasterdro see my update, the scripts are running as `nobody` — Summer Developer, Apr 17 '19 at 02:12

Laravel - The stream or file failed to open stream: Permission denied

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