Symfony permissions could not be fixed

Question

thanks to everyone in advance. I am having trouble setting up a symfony site on my local. It is not allowing me to ./load-db. I went and ./symfony project:permissions on the root directory and I am getting this error.

 Permissions on the following file(s) could not be fixed:  

   - SF_ROOT_DIR/cache                                      
   - SF_ROOT_DIR/log   

When I do tail -f /opt/dev/logs/azandmeapp/error_log I get this error

 PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'sfDatabaseException' with message 'PDOException was
 thrown when trying to manipulate session data. Message: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or 
 view not found: 1146 Table 'azandmeapp_site.http_session' doesn't exist' in 
 /opt/dev/kazaamprojects/azandmeapp/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/storage
 /sfPDOSessionStorage.class.php:169\nStack trace:\n#0 [internal function]:    
 sfPDOSessionStorage->sessionWrite('tdga8vm70sh5b0e...', '')\n#1 {main}\n  thrown in  
 /opt/dev/kazaamprojects/azandmeapp/lib/vendor/symfony/lib/storage/
 sfPDOSessionStorage.class.php on line 169

i cant rm -rf the cache or the log.

Does anyone have an idea to help me. I surely do appreciate it.

Answer 1

I am silly, I the website had nothing in the db. I need to create a blank database and load with template data.

Therefore I needed to do

  ./symfony doctrine:build --db --and-load

Thank you everyone for your time and help.

Answer 2

You have your problems with ./symfony project:permissions probably because cache was initially created by your apache user so now you can't remove cache files.

What you need to do is make sure that directories

SF_ROOT_DIR/cache 
SF_ROOT_DIR/logs

are empty and then you need to run a command

./symfony project:permissions

which should run without any problems. Simplest solution to empty cache and logs is rm * -rf. If possible try to run this command as a root. If not you will have to remove cache and log files being an apache user. To accomplish this create a php script which you will run in a browser (so it will be run as a apache user) by hitting

http://localhost/yourProject/removeDirScript.php

Check this simple script which I used in similar case as yours. Only thing you need to do is change parameter of rmdir function at the bottom of script.