services.json failed to open stream: Permission denied in Laravel 4

Question

I was playing around with a working Laravel 4 installation and moved everything into a sub folder. Then I decided to not do that and I moved it all back (all via the command

Answer 1

Never run a 777, in recursive mode. It's a security issue. For now, remove the services.json file, and try this :

Laravel 4: Failed to open stream: Permission denied

Answer 2

As the problem is related to permissions try re-giving the right permissions to app/storage and all its sub-directories and file.

You can do so from the root path of your Laravel app typing:

chmod -Rvc 777 app/storage

If for some reason this doesn't work, try:

find app/storage -type d -exec chmod -vc 777 {} \;
find app/storage -type f -exec chmod -vc 777 {} \;

Answer 3

Spent a whole day for solving this and this command simply solved my problem.

If your permissions are 777 for Laravel App folder and you still get this error, it's because SEliux has blocked it. You can easily unblock your application's folder using this command:

su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /usr/share/nginx/YOUR_LARAVEL_APP/"

That's it!

BTW never disable SElinux: http://stopdisablingselinux.com/

Answer 4

When chmod 777 or chmod 775 fails check that subdirectories really exists:

app/storage/
├── cache
├── logs
├── meta
├── sessions
└── views

in case these folders does not exists you must to create it:

cd app/storage/
mkdir meta logs cache sessions views
cd ../
find storage -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find storage -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

UPDATE 2016 for laravel 5+

In a default Laravel 5+ application structure, storage is at the same level than app. So the previous command becomes:

cd storage/
mkdir meta logs cache sessions views
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/structure

Answer 5

Try these commands one by one:

setenforce 0
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db on

Answer 6

just type this on terminal:

php artisan cache:clear