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The day before, I updated a new module and it was working normally. Now, when I run bin/magento setup:upgrade, I receive the below Exception. I tried setting permissions to 777 (or 770) for the pub folder in Magento 2 but it is not working.

  [Exception]
  Missing write permissions to the following directories: 'pub/static'

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  • did u manage to resolve this problem ? if so pls post the solution.
    – Reena Parekh
    Dec 2, 2015 at 12:40
  • Are you have same issue ?
    – Lino
    Dec 2, 2015 at 13:05
  • yes i am facing the same issue. how did u resolve it ?
    – Reena Parekh
    Dec 2, 2015 at 13:26
  • I comment some line code in core. Are you want do as me?
    – Lino
    Dec 2, 2015 at 13:28
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    i posted my relsove in post below. I can try with it
    – Lino
    Dec 2, 2015 at 13:35

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TL;DR truncate pub/static folder.

For me, I had an older installation, which probably had some symlinks and old files which no longer exist.

The issue checkInstallationFilePermissions is that it checks the permissions recursively. Files and folders. I had a missing symlink, and that returned false on the check if it's writable.

How to debug:

  1. setup/src/Magento/Setup/Model/FilePermissions.php

  2. Goto line 143 in method checkRecursiveDirectories

  3. Add the lines var_dump($subDirectory);var_dump($subDirectory->isWritable());

  4. Re run bin/magento setup:upgrade

now you'll see what is really wrong, and you can fix it. Personally i remove everything in pub/static, this will be auto generated content so you should not be worried about that.

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    I removed pub/static completely, after I ran setup:upgrade the only folder inside pub/static is __requirejs folder. Css are missing, no styling what so ever.... Man.. do I wish i haven't done that
    – Lachezar Raychev
    Feb 17, 2016 at 16:13
  • how can I restore everything in pub/static ?
    – Lachezar Raychev
    Feb 17, 2016 at 16:34
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    everything was going so well.... :) i really start to despise this framework
    – Lachezar Raychev
    Feb 17, 2016 at 17:11
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    If you remove the contents of pub/static just make sure you don't remove pub/static/.htaccess as it is part of the code base and doesn't get recreated: github.com/magento/magento2/tree/2.0/pub/static
    – mttjohnson
    Jun 8, 2016 at 15:24
  • Perfecto! This was it..
    – Arvind07
    Jul 10, 2016 at 10:45
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I ran into this error in development because of a broken symbolic link.

I had created a file in a module's view/frontend/web directory that in developer mode was deployed to the pub/static directory using a symbolic link that pointed to the module's directory where the original file is stored.

At some point in development I removed the file from my module, but the symbolic link still existed in pub/static pointing to a file that no longer existed. I expect this would also be the case if I had renamed one of the files.

If a site is in production mode and has had bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy run, that actually copies the files to the pub/static directory instead of creating symbolic links.

In order to find this broken symbolic link I ran a command from the shell

find -L . -type l

Removing the broken symbolic link resolved the problem (for example using find -L . -type l -exec rm {} \;).

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  • This was the answer to my issue as well, thanks mttjohnson!
    – Joshua Soileau
    Jul 6, 2016 at 14:15
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Inside your Magento root directory run the commands below and your issue should be gone:

$ rm -rf pub/static/*
$ php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Worked for me.

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  • This will delete .htaccess file too. You need .htaccess file.
    – Adarsh Khatri
    Nov 4, 2019 at 7:50
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    @AdarshKhatri no it won't. rm -rf pub/static/* doesn't delete dotfiles. Go ahead and try with a test directory. rm -rf pub/static/.* (notice the dot) would delete htaccess.
    – Erik B
    Jul 22, 2020 at 22:45
  • @medina Thank you 🙏🏻
    – Said Erraoudy
    May 15, 2021 at 11:29
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You should setup the permissions as it is described in the official documentation: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/install/file-system-perms.html

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    can you the actual permissions just cause in-case the url changes.
    – rob3000
    Nov 23, 2015 at 8:27
  • I try again but it not working
    – Lino
    Nov 23, 2015 at 8:31
  • Do not forget to do it recursively into subdirectories: pub, pub/static, etc.
    – Dmitrii Fediuk
    Nov 23, 2015 at 8:33
  • ownership is as important as permissions; check the above link and also devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/prereq/…. You must have two users; a local user and the web server user
    – Steve Johnson
    Nov 23, 2015 at 15:34
  • the whole idea of setting the permissions at application level is wrong so I think people should avoid the documentation at that section. it will be updated in next versions according to their github issues
    – Claudiu Creanga
    Apr 4, 2016 at 16:59
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This is my resolved temporary. I comment line 744 and 466 in <magento_dir>/setup/src/Magento/Setup/Model/Installer.php.

This is line code: 

$this->checkInstallationFilePermissions();

I need solution don't change core file.

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  • The problem is likely due to a broken symlink (answered below) under the pub/static directory. Removing the broken symlink should resolve the problem without modifying core files.
    – mttjohnson
    Jan 7, 2016 at 17:24
  • newtips.co/magento/questions/91184/… This will work
    – Envision eCommerce
    Mar 1, 2016 at 6:31
  • @EnvisionEcommerce the link doesn't work.
    – MagePsycho
    Jul 5, 2018 at 7:04
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If someone is having this issue on Windows os. Just execute the command on a Administrator command prompt and it will work like a charm. Hope this helps someone.

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Fix bin/magento permission denied

chmod u+x bin/magento

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These folders needs to have the right permissions like described in: http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/install-gde/install/file-system-perms.html

When you remove the contents of the pub/static folder and you give the pub/static folder the permission 770, the message will not show up again.

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I had the same problem where i could not install Magento via the command line. Simply creating the folder pub/static solved the problem.

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In my case running upgrade command through non-root user or a user with limited permissions was causing the error. Make sure you run the upgrade command with a user with enough permissions.

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I verified many times write permissions and everything was good.

  1. I commented this row, which throw me an exception.
  2. Then I ran setup:upgrade.
  3. Reverted back the row with exception
  4. Issue didn't reproduce no more
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Run the following command, for the following three IP addresses:

<Magento-Directory>php bin\magento maintenance:allow-ips 127.0.0.1, 
<Magento-Directory>php bin\magento maintenance:allow-ips "the ip of my localhost given by the NAT-Router" and
<Magento-Directory>php bin\magento maintenance:allow-ips  "the ip of the NAT-Router"
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don't use this :

rm -r pub/static

it will remove all files even .htaccess

you can use this will be better : 

rm -rf pub/static/frontend
rm -rf pub/static/adminhtml

after that use :

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_US -f
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You must have deleted pub/static (except .htacess) under the impression that it will be created upon next execution but after executing upgrade command you ended with this :)

Don't worry, execute the deploy command using -f to have everything in flow and expected.

I had the same issue but managed my old working source by following the above trick.

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just remove pub/static folder from your magento2

rm -r pub/static

then deploy static content of magento2

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

by using this process my same problem solved.

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    You shouldn't remove the entire pub/static directory as it contains a .htaccess file that is important, and the .htaccess file will not get recreated on any static content deploy. You could run rm -r pub/static/* and that should avoid removing the .htaccess file.
    – mttjohnson
    Jan 7, 2016 at 17:20

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