When I run cap production deploy I get cannot create directory ‘/var/www/application/repo’: Permission denied.
So far I've created deploy user like:
adduser deploy
adduser deploy sudo
and I use this user in Capistrano.
Indeed, when I log to deploy@my.vps.ip I don't have sudo permission by default, every time I need to enable it explicitly like sudo su.
I see two possible solutions:
- Enable sudo in Capistrano
- Enable sudo in Ubuntu
Unfortunately I don't know how to do neither of them.
By default Capistrano 3 deploys to /var/www which is not writable by deploy user. You need to change the ownership of /var/www to deploy user using the following command.
sudo chown deploy:deploy /var/www/
After this, you should be able to deploy your app without permission error.
Credit to Bob Roberts.
I think this should be an answer as its easy to miss your comment. I know I missed it few times.
sudo chown -R deploy:deploy /var/www/
or whatever your username is
sudo chown -R username:username /var/www/
Had the same error here, following the good tutorial of GoRails "Deploy Ruby on Rails To Production in 2019", where he create a user "deploy" and set to deploy the app in "home/deploy". Don't forget that you have to use the username created on the server. So deploy's directory is "home/USERNAME".
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24470520/capistrano-mkdir-permission-denied