PHP Fatal Error on 'php artisan migrate' on remote AWS EB instance: laravel.log: Permission denied

Question

When I SSH into my AWS EB instance to run php artisan migrate, I get the following error message:

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I am completely confused. First, I don't get this error on the local server. Second, what does a simple log file have to do with migrations anyway? They are ignored by git by default, so no log files are uploaded.

Sigh... Any ideas on how I can be allowed to run my php artisan migrate?

Answer 1

It's always the storage folder. Blank pages or permission denied, it's the darn storage folder.

I don't know how EB works, if it's a regular distro or what, but you should change ownership of the storage folder to the web server (www-data most likely) so it can build the views then set 775 permission so you can write/read logs.

So something like:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data storage/
sudo chmod -R 775 storage/