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Yii2 unable to write to assets folder

I have just installed a fresh copy of Yii2 advanced and am having trouble getting the style sheets to load. The error seems to be that Yii (or webserver) cannot create path /var/www/frontend/web/assets/1ecfb338/css despite doing so in the same http request that it errors. Even after reinforcing file permissions of 777 from without and outside the VM, Yii doesn't seem to make further attempts to write the stylesheet.

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If I just refresh the page loads without error but the stylesheet bootstrap.css has not been created in the directory.

This is most frustrating. Does anyone have any ideas?

If it matters I am running Yii in a Vagrant VM with Virtualbox. Debian is the VM OS and Ubuntu is the host.

Solution

  • This is quite strange at not experienced this before. I was able to correct this by changing the mode to 777 as the super user from outside the virtual machine. From doing the same thing inside the virtual machine made no difference.

    I have worked on many projects before with this kind of setup but not had this before. Software that I'm using that may be responsible is:

    Host machine:

    • Ubuntu 14.04
    • Vagrant 1.7.4
    • Virtualbox 4.3.30

    Virtual machine:

    • Debian Jessie
    • Nginx 1.6.2
    • PHP 5.6.14

    Edit: I found that I had defined the sync folder incorrectly. I had to change to rule this this:

    config.vm.synced_folder "./", "/var/www", id: "vagrant-root", :group=>'www-data', :mount_options=>['dmode=775,fmode=775']