services.json failed to open stream: Permission denied in Laravel 4

Question

I was playing around with a working Laravel 4 installation and moved everything into a sub folder. Then I decided to not do that and I moved it all back (all via the command line):

mv * /folder

and then

cd folder
mv * ../

Now, the site is throwing the following error:

file_put_contents(/var/www/quantquote/app/storage/meta/services.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied

Here is a screenshot of the full error:

http://i.imgur.com/8deGG97.png

I've already tried setting permissions on the /storage folder to 777 to no avail.

Answer 1

Spent a whole day for solving this and this command simply solved my problem.

If your permissions are 777 for Laravel App folder and you still get this error, it's because SEliux has blocked it. You can easily unblock your application's folder using this command:

su -c "chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /usr/share/nginx/YOUR_LARAVEL_APP/"

That's it!

BTW never disable SElinux: http://stopdisablingselinux.com/