 <p>The thing that you are trying to do is to access the <code>/storage</code> folder just without read write permissions which is required by laravel.</p> <blockquote> <h3>Using File Manager</h3> <p>One of the easy and basic ways to change the permissions is through File manager in cPanel. To change the permissions for a file or folder in cpanel, please do the following:</p> <ol> <li>Click File Manager</li> <li>Click the name of the file for which you would like to change the permissions.</li> <li>Select the Change Permissions link at the top right of the page.</li> <li>Select the permissions you would like to set for the file.</li> <li>Click Change Permissions</li> </ol> <h3>Using FTP</h3> <p>Connect to FTP. Go to the file and right click. Choose Permissions or Attributes or Properties (depends on your program).</p> <h3>Using SSH or a script</h3> <p>This can be done with chmod command.</p> </blockquote> <p>From <a href="http://support.hostgator.in/articles/cpanel/how-to-change-permissions-chmod-of-a-file" rel="nofollow">HostGator</a> website which is most probably your hosting provider.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: The directory should have the recursive mode enabled. You are not just giving permissions to one directory, but you are giving it to each and every subdirectory that you find inside that folder. If you still see an error, please post last few errors from your logs.(If it's stored which might not be there).</p>