title: Laravel file permissions for Apache
body: <p>I'm installing a Laravel app on a Centos 7 distro.  I'm using PHP 7.2 and I've successfully installed apache and my project.</p>
  
  <p>I was able to get the Apache splash page to show but as soon as I point my virtual host to my laravel public folder I get file permission errors in apache2 logs.</p>
  
  <p>I've made both my public and storage folders read/write/executable by all for a short period and I am still getting the errors.</p>
  
  <p>My virtual host:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
  
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/checkers/public
  
  &lt;Directory /var/www/html/checkers/public&gt;
      Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>My permissions (after temporary chmod 777 on public and bootstrap):</p>
  
  <pre><code>drwxr-xr-x. 13 root root   4096 Jul  6 03:16 .
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     22 Jul  6 03:16 ..
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  6 root root    106 Jul  6 03:16 app
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   1686 Jul  6 03:16 artisan
  
  drwxrwxrwx.  3 root root     34 Jul  6 03:16 bootstrap
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   1477 Jul  6 03:16 composer.json
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root 143918 Jul  6 03:16 composer.lock
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root    247 Jul  6 03:16 config
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root     72 Jul  6 03:16 database
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    651 Jul  6 03:16 .env.example
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  8 root root    198 Jul  6 03:22 .git
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    111 Jul  6 03:16 .gitattributes
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    155 Jul  6 03:16 .gitignore
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   1022 Jul  6 03:16 package.json
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   1134 Jul  6 03:16 phpunit.xml
  
  drwxrwxrwx.  4 root root    116 Jul  6 03:16 public
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   3675 Jul  6 03:16 readme.md
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root     45 Jul  6 03:16 resources
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     75 Jul  6 03:16 routes
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    563 Jul  6 03:16 server.php
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  5 root root     46 Jul  6 03:16 storage
  
  drwxr-xr-x.  4 root root     83 Jul  6 03:16 tests
  
  drwxr-xr-x. 37 root root   4096 Jul  6 03:22 vendor
  
  -rw-r--r--.  1 root root    549 Jul  6 03:16 webpack.mix.js
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The errors in /etc/httpd/logs/error_log:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[php7:error] [pid 9120] [client 192.168.10.1:46658] PHP Fatal error: 
    Uncaught ErrorException:
    file_put_contents(/var/www/html/checkers/storage/framework/views/27ab4a7b5ea3854dc076406e3c218364a7743be0.php):
    failed to open stream: Permission denied in
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:122\nStack
    trace:\n#0 [internal function]:
    Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->handleError(2,
    'file_put_conten...', '/var/www/html/c...', 122, Array)\n#1
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php(122):
    file_put_contents('/var/www/html/c...', 's...', 0)\n#2
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Compilers/BladeCompiler.php(122):
    Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem->put('/var/www/html/c...', 's...')\n#3
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php(51):
    Illuminate\View\Compilers\BladeCompiler->compile('/var/www/html/c...')\n#4
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Vi in
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
    on line 122 
    [Fri Jul 06 03:41:01.295172 2018] [php7:error] [pid 9120]
    [client 192.168.10.1:46658] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught ErrorException:
    file_put_contents(/var/www/html/checkers/storage/framework/views/27ab4a7b5ea3854dc076406e3c218364a7743be0.php):
    failed to open stream: Permission denied in
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php:122\nStack
    trace:\n#0 [internal function]:
    Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->handleError(2,
    'file_put_conten...', '/var/www/html/c...', 122, Array)\n#1
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php(122):
    file_put_contents('/var/www/html/c...', 's...', 0)\n#2
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Compilers/BladeCompiler.php(122):
    Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem->put('/var/www/html/c...', 's...')\n#3
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/View/Engines/CompilerEngine.php(51):
    Illuminate\View\Compilers\BladeCompiler->compile('/var/www/html/c...')\n#4
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Vi in
    /var/www/html/checkers/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php
    on line 122</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong>  I've sudo chmod -R 777 /var/ (temporarily) and I still get these permission errors.</p>