Laravel throws 'The bootstrap/cache directory must be present and writable' error after update

Question

I used \'composer update\', which updated a few packages. During the updating process the website still functions. However, after it says \'The compiled services file has be

Answer 1

If a web server (e.g. Apache or Nginx) is being used as a front-end the solution is to make the directory bootstrap/cache owned by web server group. For Nginx:

 $ sudo chgrp -R nginx bootstrap/cache