[FIXED] Laravel showing "Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions"

Issue

Laravel was displaying to me "Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)". One solution for this was clearing the cache and the config cache stored, all this with these three commands:

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache

After php artisan cache:clear, terminal says:

Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions. (with red background)

Doing the second and third code (php artisan config:clear and php artisan config:cache) works fine! But it still gives me the error when typing the first line. Can anyone explain why?

Solution

If the data directory doesn't exist under (storage/framework/cache/data), then you will have this error.

This data directory doesn't exist by default on a fresh/new installation.

Creating the data directory manually at (storage/framework/cache) should fix this issue.

Answered By - Mytho XY