'generated' folder/subfolders owned by root.

[dala_dahlgren]

I am new to Magento and have just installed Magento 2.3 on Ubuntu 18.04. Magento is up and running, but I have some issues getting it to work correctly.

I notice that Magento will make a directoy called 'generated' in the main installation dir and then generate more subfolders and files under this 'generated' directory.

My problem is that sometimes this 'generated' folder, or a subfolder, has 'root' as owner and file permission is 775 (i think). This means that if the user 'www-data' (who runs the webserver) tries to create a file or folder under one of the folders owned by 'root' permission is denied.

Why are the files/folders sometimes owned by 'root' and other times owned by 'www-data'?

How can I fix this issue to make sure the generation of files/folders never fails?

Thanks in advance for any help!!  

[Seba G Gonnelli]

Have you tried setting the file system ownership as described in https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/cloud/before/before-workspace-file-sys-owner.html ? 

[gelanivishal]

Hello @dala_dahlgren ,

I think you have to give me permission at once below way 

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./var -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./generated -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./pub/media -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./pub/static -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
chmod 777 ./app/etc
chmod 644 ./app/etc/*.xml
chown -R :<web server group> .
chmod u+x bin/magento

Before give above permission, Please deploy static content by below command 

php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
rm -rf pub/static/frontend/* pub/static/adminhtml/* var/cache/ var/generation/ var/page_cache/ var/view_preprocessed/ var/composer_home generated/
php -dmemory_limit=6G bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
chmod -Rf 777 pub/ var/ generated/
php bin/magento cache:clean

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[dala_dahlgren · Accepted solution]

Thanks for help, but I think I have solved the problem.

I had run 'magento cron:install' as root, so when cron was generating files/directories Apache didnt have write permission to the generated directories.

I thought Apache was generating the files/folders as 'root' and that was what was confusing me