Correct way to set up file and directory permissions in Laravel

Laravel File Permission

# Author:   M. Dutt ([email protected])
# Date:     20/11/2023
# Purpose:  Correct file and directory permissions of Laravel project.
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Change the owner and group of your Laravel project.

sudo chown -R developer:www-data /var/www/project 
OR
sudo chown -R developer:apache /var/www/project 


Directories within Laravel should have a permission level of 755. This allows the owner to read, write, and execute, while the group and others can read and execute.

sudo find /var/www/project -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;


The "storage" and "bootstrap/cache" directories need to be writable by web server user (www-data/apache). So set their permissions to 775, giving the owner and group read, write, and execute permissions, while others can only read and execute.storage.

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/project/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/project/bootstrap/cache


Files within Laravel should have a permission level of 644. This allows the owner to read and write, while the group and others can only read.

sudo find /var/www/project -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;


Verify the list of all the executable files.

sudo find /var/www/project -type f -executable