1. First and foremost, determine the user name under which the web server is running. Apache and Nginx both utilize the www-data account in Ubuntu.
2. Now, recursively change the owner and group-owner of all files and folders using following command:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/of/laravel-project3. Now set permission 644 for all files and 755 for all directories using following command:
sudo find /path/of/laravel-project -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
sudo find /path/of/laravel-project -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;4. To make Laravel project work correctly, you need to provide read and write permissions to the web server for storage, cache, and any other directories. So run the following commands:
cd /path/of/laravel-project
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache 5. Your Laravel application is now properly secured with appropriate permissions. However, because all files on the web server have an owner and a group owner, you may encounter a problem while making modifications through FTP/sFTP. To resolve this issue, add your user to the web server user group:
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu