Magento – Command line user does not have read and write permissions on generated directory

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command line user does not have read and write permissions on
generated directory. Please address this issue before using Magento command line

When I was trying to run php bin/magento indexer:reindex.

And I found I get the exactly same error when I tried to run the php bin/magento lines, I checked the post Error after magento upgrade, and have already changed the permission of generated folder, and then give bin/magento file to 744 (executable), and I used ls -l, the ownership of the folder is below to my account. I am using Magento 2.2, So there is no di folder under var folder.
So why does this error happen ?

Thanks for any advises.

Best Answer

More likely than an issue with bin/magento (even though actually there is no executable bit on any level of access) there is an issue with a generated folder. As you can read in documentation for v2.2 compiled files changed their paths to /generated/*

I assume that you have properly set privileges bits for the previous version but maybe you missed setgid/uid bits and therefore user executing PHP script does not have access to this file (all is a file in Unix, also dirs).

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Magento 2 – Fix Missing Write Permissions in Directory pub/static During Setup Upgrade

TL;DR truncate pub/static folder.

For me, I had an older installation, which probably had some symlinks and old files which no longer exist.

The issue checkInstallationFilePermissions is that it checks the permissions recursively. Files and folders. I had a missing symlink, and that returned false on the check if it's writable.

How to debug:

setup/src/Magento/Setup/Model/FilePermissions.php
Goto line 143 in method checkRecursiveDirectories
Add the lines var_dump($subDirectory);var_dump($subDirectory->isWritable());
Re run bin/magento setup:upgrade

now you'll see what is really wrong, and you can fix it. Personally i remove everything in pub/static, this will be auto generated content so you should not be worried about that.

Magento – Command line user does not have read and write permissions on var/generation directory

If you would just read Magento's documentation

Set file permissions

You must set read-write permissions for the web server group before you install the Magento software. This is necessary so that the Setup Wizard and command line can write files to the Magento file system.

cd /var/www/html/<magento install directory>
find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} +
find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} +
chown -R :www-data . // Ubuntu
chmod u+x bin/magento

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Magento 2 – Fix Missing Write Permissions in Directory pub/static During Setup Upgrade

Magento – Command line user does not have read and write permissions on var/generation directory

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