Laravel 4: Failed to open stream: Permission denied

Question

I\'m having problem in setting up Laravel 4. I\'m having this error when opening the index page:

file_put_contents(/Users/laravel/app/storage/meta/ser

Answer 1

It's better that you do not change the permissions, you should just change the owner:group of the storage folder to that of the owner:group of apache by using chown, this is more complicated but is more secure and you'll get used to this soon, you can find this in the httpd.conf

MAMP:

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

XAMMP:

/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf

Open the httpd.conf with your preferred editor then search for User/Group. After searching you will see these lines below that highlighted line you searched:

User someuser
Group somegroup

Once you already know the User and Group, cd to your laravel directory then, do the chown:

chown -R someuser:somegroup app/storage

P.S: If you get permission something error upon doing chown, try this:

sudo chown -R someuser:somegroup app/storage

It will then ask for your password so input it then done.