Laravel 4 and Symlinks

Question

So I'm new to Laravel 4, and I'm trying to figure out how to Symlink two parts of my site.

The first is apps/storage The second is public/cache (this is where an image cache is stored)

I'd like to move both of these to a SSD on my server, however Laravel keeps throwing out an error whenever I try and setup these Symlinks.

That error is:

ErrorException
file_put_contents(/meta/services.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Clearly it's unable to find the filesystem and the symlink isn't working with Laravel. But the symlink DOES work with individual files (such as a jpeg), so I'm positive there is no problem with the initial setup.

To clarify, the document root is set to httpdocs/public (via Plesk settings)

The apps (and framework) are located in the httpdocs folder which is no longer serving as the vhost root.

As I hinted at, it's a Plesk server. The owner belongs to the vhost, and the group belongs to psacln. But I don't think there are any permission/ownership problems, as I've verified the symlinks are working.

Answer 1

Looks like you have messed something else, because the path in the error message looks wrong to me:

file_put_contents(/meta/services.json)

IMO, it should be something like:

file_put_contents(/var/www/webapp/app/storage/meta/services.json)

Because, if you have done the symlink correctly you did something like

mv /var/www/webapp/app/storage /mnt/ssd/
ln -s /mnt/ssd/storage /var/www/webapp/app/storage

PHP is trying to write a file in the root /meta folder, where probably it doesn't have right.