To give the appropriate permissions to the public folder of your Laravel project on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu, follow these steps:

Step-by-Step Guide

Connect to Your EC2 Instance via SSH

Connect to your EC2 instance using SSH. Replace /path/to/your-key.pem with the path to your SSH key, and your-ec2-instance-public-dns with the public DNS of your EC2 instance.

ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-instance-public-dns

Navigate to Your Laravel Project Directory

Change to the directory where your Laravel project is located.

cd /var/www/html/your-laravel-project

Set Correct Ownership

Ensure that the public directory is owned by the web server user (www-data for Apache on Ubuntu).

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public

Set Correct Permissions

Adjust the permissions to allow the web server to read and execute files in the public directory.

sudo chmod -R 755 public

Example Commands to Execute

# Connect to your EC2 instance

ssh -i /path/to/your-key.pem ubuntu@your-ec2-instance-public-dns

# Navigate to your project directory

cd /var/www/html/your-laravel-project

# Set correct ownership to www-data

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data public

# Set permissions to 755

sudo chmod -R 755 public

Verify Permissions

To verify the permissions, you can use the ls -ld command:

ls -ld public

The output should look something like this:

drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 Jun  7 10:00 public

This indicates that the public directory has the correct permissions and is owned by www-data.