Setting the proper file permission for any web application is an important part of web hosting. In this tutorial, you will learn how to properly configure file permissions on a Laravel application hosted on a Ubuntu web server.

First of all, Identify the user name under which the webserver is running. In Ubuntu, both Apache and Nginx use the www-data account.

Now change the owner and group-owner for all files and directories recursively.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/of/laravel-app

Now set permission 644 for all files and 755 for all directories. In order to set the permission just execute the following command.

sudo find /path/of/laravel-app -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; sudo find /path/of/laravel-app -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

To make Laravel work properly, you need to give read and write permissions to the web server for storage, cache, and any other directories. So run the following commands:

cd /path/of/laravel-app sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache

Now, your Laravel application is secured with proper permissions. But as all the files have owner and group-owner to web server, you may face an issue during changes via FTP/sFTP. To solve this problem add your user to the webserver user group:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu

That's it and now we have successfully configured the proper permissions for our Laravel application.