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senty
senty

Reputation: 12847

Unable to write in the Directory - Digital Ocean

I am trying to upload an image with post request and move it to a directory. I tried..

$file = $request->file('file');
$extension = strtolower($file->getClientOriginalExtension());

$finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
    
$generatedName = sha1(time().time());
$directory = '../public/uploads/imgs/'; // works
$fileName =  $generatedName . "." . $extension; // works

// 1
$file->move($directory, $fileName);
// 2
$file->move(base_path().$directory, $fileName);

At this point, I am receiving error:

1 Unable to write in the "../public/uploads/imgs" directory

2 Unable to write in the "var/www/laravel/public/uploads/imgs" directory

I thought it was caused by permissions but didn't help either.. I tried

sudo chmod 770 /var/www/laravel/public/uploads (also /imgs/
and
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/laravel/public/uploads

I also found something else to try but couldn't figure out what to write in username bit:

sudo chown username:www-data /var/www/laravel/public/uploads/

I am using NGINX on Digital Ocean

Upvotes: 3

Views: 16657

Answers (6)

abhishek sethi
abhishek sethi

Reputation: 1

sudo usermod -aG www-data deploybot\

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel/public/uploads

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

It works for me Make sure change your user accordingly in this case it is deploybot

Upvotes: 0

senty
senty

Reputation: 12847

I solved my problem with specific case of Digital Ocean.. First I tried...

 useradd -U -G www-data -m -c "deploy" deploybot
 chown deploybot:www-data /var/www/laravel
 chmod 2755 /var/www/laravel

Then.. 

 sudo usermod -aG www-data deploybot
 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel
 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/laravel/public/uploads
 sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

More info here and here

Upvotes: 3

naf4me
naf4me

Reputation: 413

Please create target path imgs with proper permission rather without specific permission. Please check the following codes where you can give permission to imgs folder.

$destinationPath = public_path().'/uploads/imgs/';

// Create folders if they don't exist
if (!file_exists($destinationPath)) {
   File::makeDirectory($destinationPath, $mode = 0755, true, true);
}

Where makeDirectory params are will clarified at here.

FYI, $mode would be 0775, 0777 ( thought it should not give it).

Upvotes: 1

Mysteryos
Mysteryos

Reputation: 5791

Starting with your error messages:

1. Unable to write in the "../public/uploads/imgs" directory

By default, your nginx is pointing to the public folder of your laravel installation. ../public/uploads/imgs will therefore resolve to /var/www/laravel/public/uploads/imgs which won't work if it doesn't have read permissions to the laravel folder.

Normally, nginx should only have read access to your public folder.

2. Unable to write in the "var/www/laravel/public/uploads/imgs" directory

The path is a relative one. It's absolute path is /var/www/laravel/public/var/www/laravel/public/uploads/imgs which won't exist by default.

Solution:

Replace these lines:

$directory = '../public/uploads/imgs/';
$file->move(base_path().$directory, $fileName);

With:

$directory = 'uploads/imgs/';
$file->move(public_path().$directory, $fileName);

Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/helpers#paths

Warning: Do not give nginx write access to your public folder! If someone manages to upload & overwrite your index.php, your site will be compromised.

Upvotes: 4

Webeng
Webeng

Reputation: 7113

Try first creating the directory with:

$directory_path = "...";//whatever you wish it to be

//if the directory doesn't exist already, it is created:
if (!file_exists($directory_path))
{
  mkdir($directory_path);
}

At first don't include the other code, just to see if you are able to actually create a directory. If it works and its there, try including the file there. Let me know if that worked for you!

Upvotes: 1

Alexey Mezenin
Alexey Mezenin

Reputation: 163898

Try to run this command to give write permissions to the upload directory and all it's subdirectories:

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/laravel/public/uploads

Upvotes: 2

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