Laravel daily log created with wrong permissions

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I have a script that I run using php artisan (with root user), and sometimes it causes the daily log file to be created before the apache www-data user does – which means that when a real user uses my web application, I get the folder permission error:

Failed to open stream: Permission denied

I change the permissions back to www-data everytime but I want to solve this by having the log file always created with the correct permissions.

I've considered creating a cron job that creates the file or touches it to make sure it has the right permission everyday, but I'm looking for a better solution that doesn't rely on another script.

We've also considered wrapping php artisan in another script to make sure that it is always run with the www-data credentials, but somethings that we want to do are actually root procedures that apache should not be allowed to do.

Any more suggestions?

Best Answer

Laravel version 5.6.10 and later has support for a permission element in the configuration (config/logging.php) for the single and the daily driver: 

    'daily' => [
        'driver' => 'daily',
        'path' => storage_path('logs/laravel.log'),
        'level' => 'debug',
        'days' => 7,
        'permission' => 0664,
    ],

No need to juggle with Monolog in the bootstrap script.

Specifically, support was added in https://github.com/laravel/framework/commit/4d31633dca9594c9121afbbaa0190210de28fed8.

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