# Laravel File Permission on  Apache
1. Set the owner & group of file & folder to apache user (**www-data**)
```bash
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/root/directory
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/root/directory
```
2. Add user to the webserver user group
```bash
sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu
```
3. Set file & directory permission to **775** & **644**
```bash
sudo find /path/to/your/root/directory -type f  -exec chmod 644 {} \;
sudo find /path/to/your/root/directory -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
```
4. Vive read and write permissions to the webserver for storage, cache and any other directories the webserver needs to upload or write too
```bash
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache
```
Source : [https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-framework-file-permission-security](https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-framework-file-permission-security)