normalize laravel permission for security and fixing logging issues of permission denied

laravel-permission.sh

#!/bin/bash

## create user group
sudo groupadd laravel

## add current user to group
sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER

## add web server to group
sudo usermod -a -G www-data laravel

## jump to laravel path
sudo cd /path/to/your/beautiful/laravel-application

## optional: if you've been playing around with permissions
## consider resetting all files and directories to the default
sudo find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

## give users part of the laravel group the standard RW and RWX
## permissions for the existing files and folders respectively
sudo chown -R :laravel ./storage
sudo chown -R :laravel ./bootstrap/cache
sudo find ./storage -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
sudo find ./bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
sudo find ./storage -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
sudo find ./bootstrap/cache -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;


## give the newly created files/directories the group of the parent directory 
## e.g. the laravel group
sudo find ./bootstrap/cache -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
sudo find ./storage -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;

## let newly created files/directories inherit the default owner 
## permissions up to maximum permission of rwx e.g. new files get 664, 
## folders get 775
sudo setfacl -R -d -m g::rwx ./storage
sudo setfacl -R -d -m g::rwx ./bootstrap/cache

## Reboot so group file permissions refresh (required on Debian and Centos)
sudo reboot