Recurring permissions problems w/ Laravel on vagrant box

Question

I'm getting some strange permissions problems. I'm using Laravel on a vagrant box. I regularly have to reset my app/storage permissions.

Here's my process:

• in terminal, run sudo chmod -R 777 app/storage. I do this both from the vagrant ssh and directly on my machine.

• everything loads fine.

• I run a login script that looks like this:

  public function store()
  {
  $input = Input::all();
  
  $attempt = Auth::attempt([
      'email' => $input['email']
      , 'password' => $input['password']
  ]);
  
  if($attempt){
      return Redirect::intended('/');
  }else{
      dd('errors');
  }
  }
  

• I fill in my login with incorrect details & I get the dd() output as expected.

• I return to my login form.

• I enter valid user details.

• I get the following permissions error:

  file_put_contents(/var/www/laravel/app/storage/sessions/62da397f3ec526dea6cabf36f06657234dfb9de7): failed to open stream: Permission denied
  

• In terminal I run sudo chmod -R app/storage again.

• I can reload the page and the permissions denied error is gone.

I've done this consistently every. single. time. I can't work out what's messing with my permissions or how to fix it.

Answer 1

I've just figured it out. it's to do with the vagrantfile. I added the owner and group info to the synced files and it's working now.

  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www", :owner => 'www-data', :group => 'www-data'