(Fixed) Laravel – Please Provide a Valid Cache Path

Today, during the deployment of an existing Laravel application on LAMP environment, I found the following error on the screen.

After more debugging and Google it, I found that the storage/framework directory is missing from deployment. Because the .gitignore file has an entry of storage/framework directory to prevent them from adding code to the git repository and this is normal.

Solution:

To solve this issue, you have to create “framework” folder inside the storage directory. Inside the “framework” directory create 3 more directories as “sessions, views and cache” as below:

/path/to/laravel/storage/framework/

• sessions
• views
• cache

Using the Linux terminal, use the following commands to create the directory structure.

cd storage/
mkdir -p framework/{sessions,views,cache}

You also need to set permissions to allow Laravel to write data in this directory.

chmod -R 777 framework
chown -R www-data:www-data framework