Azure Web Apps: FTP-uploaded file permissions

Question

I'm in the process of getting a Laravel 5 app working on Azure Web Apps and am encountering an issue via Laravel's temporary storage.

Any time a template renders, Laravel attempts to cache it to the local filesystem. Unfortunately, for some reason Laravel doesn't have permission to write to its storage directory.

I am deploying my application from my build server via FTP
I am running on the free-tier shared infrastructure (just while I'm getting set up)
My deployment server is running Linux

In this circumstance, it's obvious what the problem is. Unfortunately, what I don't understand is why my web server doesn't have access to write to the directories my FTP user uploads.

Ideally any solution offered will be one that I can automate as part of my deploy process.

Laravel has files outside of the `wwwroot` directory, which is fine. One of the directories is called `storage` and it's in there that Laravel expects to do a bit of static caching of templates & other stuff. — Alexander Trauzzi, Jun 18 '15 at 16:34
Using the free-tier the VMs are shared, please, check if the problem happens when running on standard, when a full vm is associated to your hosting plan — jangelfdez, Jun 18 '15 at 16:36
Do free-tier VMs not allow write access to the filesystem from PHP? — Alexander Trauzzi, Jun 18 '15 at 16:38
I think it's only to your local app directory, not outside it. — jangelfdez, Jun 18 '15 at 16:39
Here talk about the same topic http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12964129/can-i-write-to-file-system-on-azure-web-site — jangelfdez, Jun 18 '15 at 16:44

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '15 at 10:32

According to http://clivern.com/working-with-laravel-caching/, you can change the directory of the cache files using the cache.php configuration file. I'd like to suggest you to use $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to obtain the root folder of your web app, and then construct a path for the cache files.

Azure Web Apps: FTP-uploaded file permissions

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