chown -R apache not working in macOS

[icetechy]

How to give permission to Laravel folders to be written by apache and Laravel.

I just install Laravel-8 on my mac so I am trying to run the below commands via Terminal on Mac:

*These commands: chmod -R 775 storage/

chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

worked perfectly but the below commands didn't work:

chown -R apache storage/ and chown -R apache bootstrap/cache

I keep getting this error "chown: apache: illegal user name".

Please, how do I get this issue resolved?

[chuckrincon]

Hey there ✋🏻 .

Basically the apache group doesn't exist, you can create it and then run again the command.

Try using just the owner if no group

chown -R $USER storage
chown -R $USER bootstrap/cache

But I highly recommend you to use the Laravel's default server environment, by running this command:

php artisan serve

If you have Brew installed in your machine, the best way to prevent and avoid this kind of issues is using Laravel Valet, which is a development environment for macOS.

Or if you are using Docker, there is Laravel Sail, a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment.

Using any of the options above, prevent and avoid this kind of issues.

[icetechy]

Thank you very much, this worked like a charm :-)

[ousid]

Hey, @icetechy
I created a blog post about permission on Laravel months ago, give it a read, you may find the solution in there.