When you deploy a Laravel application remember to set the right folders and files permissions. Here we suppose that: WEB SERVER is “www-data” and belongs the group “www-data” SERVER ADMIN is “ubuntu” and belongs the group “ubuntu” Step 1 : “ubuntu” owns all the directories and files sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory Step 2 : Add “ubuntu” to “www-data” group sudo usermod -a -G www-data ubuntu Step 3 : Set permissions for folders sudo find /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \; Step 4 : Set permissions for files sudo find /path/to/your/laravel/root/directory -type d -exec chmod 644 {} \; Step 5 : The group “www-data” owns storage and bootstrap/cache folders sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache Step 6 : Set permissions for “www-data” user and group sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache The result will be: