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Why Concrete5 website answers with an error 500 after running c5:clear-cache?

The Concrete5 documentation says:

Clearing the concrete5 cache is as easy as executing this command:

concrete/bin/concrete5 c5:clear-cache

But after running this command as root the website answers with an error 500. Why?

Solution

  • If you enable error display you will see:

    Cache path is not writable

    The c5:clear-cache command doesn't give write permissions on the cache path to the web server.

    You can solve this by resetting the correct ownership with:

    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/concrete5/application/files/ 
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/concrete5/application/config/
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/concrete5/packages/
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/concrete5/updates/