I'm using WordPress on centos 6.
I try to install a plugin. But I got this error:
Installing Plugin: bbPress 2.5.9
Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress.2.5.9.zip…
Unpacking the package…
Could not create directory.
How can I resolve this?
P/S: I run this command:
sudo -u root touch /var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/test.txt
and it works. But I still get that error.
You only need to change the access permissions for your WordPress Directory:
chown -R www-data:www-data your-wordpress-directory
You can fix this by using the following commands. You should first be in the root folder of Wordpress.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wp-content/plugins/
sudo chmod 775 wp-content
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wp-content/
The user that is running your web server does not have permissions to write to the directory that Wordpress is intending to create the plugin directory in. You should chown the directory in question to the user that is running Wordpress. It is most likely not root.
In short, this is a permissions issue. Your touch command is working because you're using it as root, and root has global permissions to write wherever it wants.
A quick solution would be to change the permissions of the following:
/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content
/var/www/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins
Change it to 775.
After installation, don't forget to change it back to the default permissions.. :D
I had to give ownership of /plugins and /upgrade to the server, nothing else.
$ cd /var/www/wordpress/wp-content
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /plugings
$ sudo chown www-data:www-data /upgrade
Running Apache server on Ubuntu 18.04. Maybe more dirs will need to be changed later. Anyways, I plan to restore permissions once I finish editing, as suggested in this anwser.
If you have installed wordpress using apt, the config files are split in multiple directories. In that case you need to run:
sudo chown -R -h www-data:www-data /var/lib/wordpress/wp-content/
sudo chown -R -h www-data:www-data /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/
The -h switch changes the permissions for symlinks as well, otherwise they are not removable by user www-data
To solve permission issue on plugins and themes on localhost or production quickly, you just run this
sudo chmod 757 wp-content/themes
sudo chmod 757 wp-content/plugins
if take care permission on production, you can run
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wp-content/themes
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data wp-content/plugins
If you are mac user , using XAMP
Go to the htdocs folder and open the terminal on the folder , as shown in the screenshot
Then Type the following command on the Terminal
**sudo chmod -R 777 <your wordpress folder Name>/**
E.g sudo chmod -R 777 wordpress/
CentOS7 or Ubuntu 16
1.
WordPress uses ftp to install themes and plugins.
So the ftpd should have been configured to create-directory
vim /etc/pure-ftpd.confg
and if it is no then should be yes
# Are anonymous users allowed to create new directories?
AnonymousCanCreateDirs yes
lastly
sudo systemctl restart pure-ftpd
2.
Maybe there is an ownership issue with the parent directories.
Find the Web Server user name and group name if it is Apache Web Server
apachectl -S
it will print
...
...
User: name="apache" id=997
Group: name="apache" id=1000
on Ubuntu it is
User: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
Group: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
then
sudo chown -R apache:apache directory-name
3.
Sometimes it is because of directories permissions.
So try
sudo chmod -R 755 directory-name
in some cases 755 does not work. (It should & I do not no why) so try
sudo chmod -R 777 directory-name
4.
Maybe it is because of php safe mode.
So turn it off in the root of your domain
vim php.ini
then add
safe_mode = Off
NOTE:
For not entering FTP username and password each time installing a theme we can configure WordPress to use it directly by adding
define('FS_METHOD','direct');
to the wp-config.php file.
If anyone using shared hosting and get same problem it may be disk space issue. In that case contact with your hosting support and ask them to increase disk space of your acocunt.
You need to change the permission of the directory
At first change the user HTML folder (replace yourcomputerusername)
sudo chown yourcomputerusername:yourcomputerusername /var/www/html
Next change the permission for the user
cd /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R goa=rwx wordpress
or
sudo chmod -R 777 wordpress/wp-content
I was on XAMPP for linux localhost and this worked for me:
sudo chown -R my-linux-username wp-content
What I end up doing is every time I create a WordPress project. in /www/html
I run below command
sudo chown www-data:www-data wordpress_folder_name -R
hope this will help someone.
For me the problem was FTP server that WP is using to upload update. It had writting disabled in configuration, so just enabling it fixed the problem.
Shame on WordPress for providing such misleading error message.
You could try
sudo chmod goa=rwx -R /var/www/html
None of the above work for me except this one.
sudo chown daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs/
Don't forget to change /opt/bitnami/apache/htdocs/ to your directory
Webserver user must have write access to directories to perform such operations, so you can try to change owner of files to webserver user (apache in this example, but can be differ from yours)
chown -R apache YOUR_BLOG_DIRECTORY
If you are using some app that wraps http, you have to set these user in the command.
sudo chown -R [desireduser]:[desireduser] wp-content/
By example, if you are using lampp, the users that init httpd is "daemon" and the command that works will be:
sudo chown -R [desireduser]:[desireduser] wp-content/
You can search in your httpd.conf file
To solve permission issue on ubuntu server, you just run this
sudo chmod 777 -R 'wordpress wp-content file location'
for example.
sudo chmod 777 -R /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content
wordpressProject is the project name.
/var/www/html/wordpressProject sudo chmod -R 777 wp-content
Thanks. It will work.
Absolutely it must be work!
Use this
chown -Rf www-data:www-data /var/www/html
I'm pretty new at laravel, in fact and I'm trying to create my very first project. for some reason I keep getting this error (I haven't even started coding yet)
Error in exception handler: The stream or file "/var/www/laravel/app/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/laravel/bootstrap/compiled.php:8423
I've read this has something to do with permissions but chmod -R 775 storage didn't help at all.
Never set a directory to 777. you should change directory ownership. so set your current user that you are logged in with as owner and the webserver user (www-data, apache, ...) as the group.
You can try this:
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
then to set directory permission try this:
chmod -R 775 storage
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
Update:
Webserver user and group depend on your webserver and your OS. to figure out what's your web server user and group use the following commands. for nginx use:
ps aux|grep nginx|grep -v grep
for apache use:
ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
Never use 777 for directories on your live server, but on your own machine, sometimes we need to do more than 775, because
chmod -R 775 storage
Means
7 - Owner can write
7 - Group can write
5 - Others cannot write!
If your webserver is not running as Vagrant, it will not be able to write to it, so you have 2 options:
chmod -R 777 storage
or change the group to your webserver user, supposing it's www-data:
chown -R vagrant:www-data storage
To fix this issue, you need to change the ownership of the directory to the unix user that the webserver uses.
Get out of the VM
Using the console, go to your synced folder (vagrant)
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
chmod -R 775 storage
Even though I created the project within the VM using the VM user, the folder belonged to the user in the real computer; so, when trying to
Now it's working.
Thanks to all those that helped me figure this thing out
EDIT:
Actually, it still wasn't working, it still gave me a "permission denied" problem.
Here's what I did, I modified my Vagrantfile like this:
config.vm.synced_folder "./app","/var/www/", create:true,
:owner => "vagrant",
:group => "www-data",
:mount_options => ["dmode=775","fmode=664"]
It also may be SELinux. (Centos, RedHat)
Determine status of SElinux on terminal:
$ sestatus
If status is enabled, write command to disable SElinux
$ setenforce Permissive
Or you may execute this command
$ sudo setenforce 0
You need to adjust the permissions of storage and bootstrap/cache.
cd into your Laravel project.
sudo chmod -R 755 storage
sudo chmod -R 755 bootstrap/cache
You can try 777 if 755 doesn't work. 777 is not secure though!
Depending on how your web server is setup, you may be able to be more specific with your permissions, and only grant them to your web server user. Google WEB SERVER NAME Laravel file permissions for more information.
At the time of writing, this is for Laravel 5.4
It might be late but may help someone, changing directory permissions worked for me.
Assuming that your Laravel project is in /var/www/html/ directory. Goto this directory.
cd /var/www/html/
Then change permissions of storage/ and bootstrap/cache/ directories.
sudo chmod -R 775 storage/
sudo chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache/
If permission 775 does not work, try setting 777. (Warning! This is the most relaxed permission, use with care).
sudo chmod -R 777 storage/
sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache/
cPanel: If you are on cPanel and don't have terminal available you can change permission by right clicking on the mentioned directory and it's sub-directories.
Add to composer.json
"scripts": {
"post-install-cmd": [
"chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache",
"chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache"
]
}
After composer install
Run following commands and you can add sudo at starting of command depends on your system:
chmod -R 775 storage/framework
chmod -R 775 storage/logs
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
1- The nginx user and php-fpm user and app owner-user must be the same:
run command sudo vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf change like bellow:
user nginx nginx;
run command sudo vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf change like bellow:
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0660
user = nginx
group = nginx
then restart nginx and php-fpm service
run below command
sudo chown nginx:nginx -R "your_project_path"
2- change file SELinux security context by run the following commands in the project path
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t .
chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t .
For all Centos 7 users on a Laravel context, there is no need to disable Selinux, just run these commands:
yum install policycoreutils-python -y # might not be necessary, try the below first
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/laravel/storage(/.*)?" # add a new httpd read write content to sellinux for the specific folder, -m for modify
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/var/www/html/laravel/bootstrap/cache(/.*)?" # same as the above for b/cache
restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/ # this command is very important to, it's like a restart to apply the new rules
Lastly, make sure your hosts, ips and virtual hosts are all correctly for remote accessing.
Selinux is intended to restrict access even to root users, so only the necessary stuff might be accessed, at least on a generalist overview, it's extra security, disabling it is not a good practise, there are many links to learn Selinux, but for this case it is not even required.
If you use cmd
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
If you use GUI
First go to the project and right click on the storage and check the properties and go to the Permissions tab
Change the permissions using below code
sudo chmod -R 777 storage
Then your file properties may be
Then check your settings and execute laravel command it will work :)
I stuck on this issue tried different commands but these will help to solve the problem
php artisan route:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
Hope it's helped others too.
Just run the following command from Project root Directory -
sudo chmod -R 775 storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
In Laravel, you should set ACL on storage and cache directory so that web server user can read/write on the directory. Open a new terminal and run following:
HTTPDUSER=$(ps axo user,comm | grep -E '[a]pache|[h]ttpd|[_]www|[w]ww-data|[n]ginx' | grep -v root | head -1 | cut -d\ -f1)
sudo setfacl -dR -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:$(whoami):rwX bootstrap/cache storage/
sudo setfacl -R -m u:"$HTTPDUSER":rwX -m u:$(whoami):rwX bootstrap/cache storage/
References:
https://symfony.com/doc/3.4/setup/file_permissions.html#using-acl-on-a-system-that-supports-setfacl-linux-bsd
https://linux.die.net/man/1/setfacl
Maximum people's are suggesting to change file permission 777 or 775, which I believe not an appropriate approach to solve this problem. You just need to change the ownership of storage and bootstrap folder.
In below Image you can see all my files/folder are under the root user(except storage and bootstrap, because I changed the ownership ),but I logged in as a administrator(before changing ownership) that's why it always giving permission denied. So I need to change the ownership of this two folder to administrator
So how I did this,
go to your project directory and run below commands.
sudo chown -R yourusername:www-data storage,
sudo chmod -R ug+w storage,
sudo chown -R yourusername:www-data bootstrap,
sudo chmod -R ug+w bootstrap
try this
cd /var/www/html
setenforce 0
service httpd restart
This is what I do if I'm running Apache:
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data my_laravel_project/
sudo chmod -R 775 my_laravel_project/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 my_laravel_project/bootstrap/cache
cd my_laravel_project
php artisan optimize:clear
This solution is specific for laravel 5.5
You have to change permissions to a few folders:
chmod -R -777 storage/logs
chmod -R -777 storage/framework
for the above folders 775 or 765 did not work for my project
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache
Also the ownership of the project folder should be as follows (current user):(web server user)
I managed to fix it as I was only granting permission to via this command:
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sudo chmod -R 775 storage
The fix was to add this:
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sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage
I wasn't too keen on changing my folder permissions to 777. Here's how I went about fixing this issue.
First, I changed the user who is running the web server on my local machine(I run nginx, but the principles apply everywhere):
$> sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
user <my_user> #inside nginx.conf
service nginx reload
Afterwards, I created another index.php file under the public/ folder to find out who was running my php-fpm version and where I would go about changing that:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Reloading the page, I found out that www-data was the user(under the environment section). I also found out I was running php 7.1. I proceeded to change the user:
$> sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
#Look for www-data or the following variables: user, group, listen.user, listen.group.
Finally, I gave the following permissions to folders:
sudo chmod -R 775 ./storage/
Now, I made sure that I was the owner of the folders by using a simple:
ls -al
If you set the server and php-fpm users to yourself and the folders are owned by root for example, then you will keep encountering this issue. This can happen if you did a sudo laravel new <project> as root. In that case, make sure you use a recursive chown command on your project to change the user:group settings. In most default cases, www-data is the main setting for the server and php, in that case it's a matter of making sure the folder isn't out of www-data's reach.
My project is setup in my home directory. On Ubuntu 16.04 and Laravel 5.5.
In my particular case I had a config file generated and cached into the bootstrap/cache/ directory so my steps where:
Remove all generated cached files: rm bootstrap/cache/*.php
Create a new laravel.log file and apply the update of the permissions on the file using:
chmod -R 775 storage
Tried anything suggested here without success.
What worked for me was:
sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage
sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage/logs
In Linux
sudo chown -R www-data:root /var/www/name-project-Laravel
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/name-project-Laravel/storage
In Centos & Rockylinnux
chown root:nginx FOLDER_PROJECT -Rf
chmod 775 FOLDER_PROJECT -Rf
cd FOLDER_PROJECT
chmod 777 storage -Rf
setenforce 0
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Mac OS solution
I fixed this problem simply by giving the necessary permission to my folders.
Right Click on the logs folder and click on Get Info
At the bottom, you will see Sharing & Permissions. Now give Read & Write access to the folder.
Follow the attachment.
Next step👇🏻
as you probably already know this issue is caused due to absence of write permission on the log folder which is a sub folder of storage.
To solve this problem walkedthrough these sequence of steps
Update composer
sudo composer self-update
Change storage folder write permission
sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage
Now storage folder should have permission drwxrwxrwx
To check permissions run the following command from project root
ls -l
Also if you face the following error after the step above
ErrorException chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2)
Just create a folder named public on the project root folder using
sudo mkdir public
ps. For more information about the chmod commands check this
below command would work for sure.
sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage
Not write any command or not gives any permission simplest way to solved this issue
just restart your system and try it again
it's work for me