Laravel showing "Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions"

If the data directory doesn't exist under (storage/framework/cache/data), then you will have this error.

This data directory doesn't exist by default on a fresh/new installation.

Creating the data directory manually at (storage/framework/cache) should fix this issue.

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Try deleting these cached files under bootstrap folder:

/bootstrap/cache/packages.php
/bootstrap/cache/services.php
/bootstrap/cache/config.php

Then run php artisan cache:clear

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Calling

php artisan config:cache 

before

php artisan cache:clear

fixed the issue.

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Just only add folder named data in storage/framework/cache/ and try:

php artisan cache:clear

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https://i.stack.imgur.com/hMopa.png

First try:

Check if there is a "data" folder inside "storage/framework/cache/". If there is not, then create it manually. (create a new folder with name "data")

Option 2:

If there is a "data" folder inside "storage/framework/cache/". Remove ALL existing folders inside there.

Then final, running this:

php artisan cache:clear

This should fix this issue: "Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions."

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Calling the following 4 commands should fix most of the permission issues on laravel.

sudo chown -R $USER:www-data storage
sudo chown -R $USER:www-data bootstrap/cache
chmod -R 775 storage
chmod -R 775 bootstrap/cache

Basically, chown -R $USER:www-data what this does is it set current user $USER as owner and www-data as group and chmod -R 775 gives 7 to user,7 to group and 5 to other.

#PS: You need to run above command from the laravel project directory, else, you need to provide full path like /var/www/project_name/storage

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In Laravel 8 I solved my issue by first running composer dump-autoload and then used php artisan config:cache

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Deleting and adding back the ./storage/framework/cache/data folder worked for me.

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You should update the permission using the below steps:

Check user using command "whoami" then let output is "ironman" Run below command if "data" folder exists in the cache directory

sudo chown -R ironman:ironman storage/framework/cache/data/

https://i.stack.imgur.com/A2wZ7.png

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I ran my project in a docker container, then later tried accessing it via laragon, I had similar issue, this was due to compiled configurations in /bootstrap/cache/config.php.

I fixed fit by running php artisan config:clear, this deletes the /bootstrap/cache/config.php file automatically.

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I had the same problem but noticed if you run php artisan config:clear it also by default runs cache:clear right after it so when you run it again there is not cache in it and gives that error. you only need to run php artisan config:clear. I am not sure why cache:clear fails when its ran alone but running the config:clear is a good alternative.

Here is a helpful alias i use to clear everything in the app.

laraclear='php artisan config:cache && php artisan config:clear && php artisan view:clear && php artisan route:clear && php artisan telescope:clear && php artisan debugbar:clear'

Remove any unwanted commands that you do not use in it.

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(For MAC Users)

Sometimes, it means current user don't have sufficient permission to the storage/framework/cache/data/ folder. Run

sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage/framework/cache/data/

then

php artisan cache:clear

Hope sometimes it work for you.

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You may need to clear the autoloader with composer dump-autoload

If that doesn't work you can manually remove the following non-tracked (usually) files to clear the autoloader and cache if they get jammed up:

/bootstrap/cache/packages.php

/bootstrap/cache/services.php

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In my case the problem was I had 'CACHE_DRIVER=memcached' in .env but didn't have memcached installed. Switching to the file driver or installing memcached fixed the problem for me.

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Delete all subfolders under:

storage/framework/cache/data/

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For Laravel Homestead on Windows:

In your .env file, change your CACHE_DRIVER from file to memcached.

Run php artisan cache:clear.

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Can't this solve it?

$php artisan optimize:clear
Compiled views cleared!
Application cache cleared!
Route cache cleared!
Configuration cache cleared!
Compiled services and packages files removed!

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Had the same problem on my vagrant/homestead VM. All the other things in this thread didn't help.

The solution was vagrant reload --provision

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Giving 775 permission to the storage directory solved this problem for me.

sudo chmod -R 775 storage

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I am running my project in Homestead.

My environment :

Ubuntu1~20.04+ Laravel 6.20.26

My output

https://i.stack.imgur.com/mYMXN.png

display real fatal info

Edit src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php 598:14 original code:

if (! $preserve) {
    @rmdir($directory);
}

debug code

if (! $preserve) {
    rmdir($directory);
}

Then re-execute php artisan cache:clear The output changed:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/gVwkM.png

Then, I just resolve Text file busy

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got the same error. try giving chmod 777 permission in the concerned folder

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My guess is you have a permission/ownership problem. Either set up the permissions correctly or recursively delete the cache folder manually and re-create it:

sudo rm -Rf storage/framework/cache
mkdir storage/framework/cache

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maybe you need to chmod 777 -R storage folder. and i think it can also chown www-data:www-data

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Incase non of these works for you, simply run your php artisan cache:clear command with sudo. e.g. sudo php artisan cache:clear Thank me later~!

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