Fix log permissions

Skill choutos/agent-skills-spec/examples/fix-log-permissions

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Fix Laravel log file permission errors after deployment. Use when seeing "UnexpectedValueException: Permission denied" for storage/logs/laravel.log, or after any deployment that may change file ownership. Triggers on: laravel, log permissions, www-data, storage/logs, permission denied.

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Fix Laravel Log Permissions

Symptoms

UnexpectedValueException: .../storage/logs/laravel.log Permission denied
Application returns 500 errors after deployment
Log file owned by root instead of www-data

Fix

# Fix ownership
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/storage/logs/

# Restart PHP-FPM (adjust version as needed)
sudo systemctl restart php8.2-fpm

Or use the script: scripts/fix-perms.sh <ssh-host>

Root Cause

Deployment runs as root, creating or modifying log files with root ownership. The web server (www-data) then can't write to them.

Prevention

Add to post-deploy hook:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/storage/logs/