Laravel 8 Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions

Question

I am running php artisan cache:clear to clear the cache in Godaddy shared hosting through SSH.

My other artisan commands working but php artisan cache:clear not.

I am getting following error :

Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions.

make sure `bootstrap/cache` folder have correct permission `read/write` — Kamlesh Paul, Sep 28 '20 at 10:26
Make sure that your user has correct permissions on `storage/cache` folder. If not take a look on this question and give correct permissions. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30639174/how-to-set-up-file-permissions-for-laravel — Malkhazi Dartsmelidze, Sep 28 '20 at 10:27

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 13 '22 at 05:01

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I fixed this issue by deleting all files in bootstrap/cache. Then, run the following commands.

php artisan cache:clear

composer dump-autoload

edited May 13 '22 at 05:01

Karl Hill

answered May 10 '22 at 17:00

Razor Mureithi

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '22 at 08:24

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The user that executes php artisan cache:clear must have write permissions on the following directories and content recursively.

booststrap/cache/*
storage/*

To check files that user does not have write permission for

find booststrap/cache storage -not -perm -u=w

Finally fix permissions:

chmod -R u+w bootstrap/cache storage

answered Apr 07 '22 at 08:24

8ctopus

thank you! not having permission on ALL directories in those folders was what was causing the problems for me, even if the problematic folder was not directly related to cache – Marko D Apr 10 '23 at 17:53

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '20 at 10:30

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You can also user Artisan facade to clear cache in live server/production.

Artisan::call('cache:clear');

answered Sep 28 '20 at 10:30

Niklesh Raut

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