[FIXED] How to fix Error: laravel.log could not be opened?

Issue

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.

Solution

To fix this issue, you need to change the ownership of the directory to the unix user that the webserver uses.

1. Get out of the VM
2. Using the console, go to your synced folder (vagrant)
3. sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
4. 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"]

Answered By - frankelot