Folder Permissions denied with Nitro

Question

I’m getting this error when accessing/writing images. It’s only just come along suddenly after one or a couple of updates.

League\Flysystem\Exception

Impossible to create the root directory "/Users/username/Sites/project-name/craft/web/images/folder". mkdir(): Permission denied

• Running Nitro with Multipass 1.5
• Multipassd has all Full Disk Access (but had to add this manually from Application Services)
• Craft CMS 3.5.16
• MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
• Composer version 2.0.8
• Unable to change file permissions in Finder/Transmit etc
• Not new installs
• Unable to load an image through CP. Same message as above

Nitro running other simpler site fine, so no problems there.

At a loss, any site running locally that needs images will fail to load, but /admin runs all fine.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

This could be because you are setting your Settings → Assets → your volume File System Path to an absolute location outside the VM.

Create an alias (or hard-set webroot) using:

'aliases' => [
    'webroot' => dirname(__DIR__) . '/web'
],

In your config/general.php (changing web if you have a different public root).

With this in place, change the File System Path of your volume to @webroot/your/path which should solve you issue.