Laravel storage/logs Error

A regular issue for me is failing the initial deployment of a git clone Laravel server using Nginx. It’s almost always because I forget to create and give permissions to the Nginx user www-data.

UnexpectedValueException
There is no existing directory at "/var/www/myproject/storage/logs" and its not buildable: Permission denied

Then even if I do sort the permissions here it fails again with:

InvalidArgumentException
Please provide a valid cache path.

This is because the storage/framework path and subfolders don’t exist. You need to create folders and make sure the www-data user has read/write/create permissions:

$ mkdir -p storage/framework/cache
$ mkdir -p storage/framework/sessions
$ mkdir -p storage/framework/views
$ sudo chgrp www-data storage -R
$ sudo chmod g+rwx storage -R