Laravel 5 file and folder permissions

# My user as owner
sudo chown -R my-user:www-data /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory

# Then both your user and the webserver permissions
sudo find /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;    
sudo find /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

# Rights for the web server to read and write to storage and cache. Run it in you laravel project root
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache