magento2: Magento ver. 2.1.0 - Cron /bin/magento cron:run Permission denied in /vendor/colinmollenhour/cache-backend-file/File.php

Magento ver. 2.1.0, Implementation of cron as per documentation on [(http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html#config-cli-cron-group-run)]

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

Results in error log reporting the following when line one in cron runs, the other two run without issues.

Subject: Cron <ec2-user@domainname.com> /usr/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/vhosts/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
X-Cron-Env: <LANG=en_US.UTF-8>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ec2-user>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ec2-user>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=ec2-user>
[Exception]                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/vhosts/magento2/var/cache//mage-tags/mage---1b8_CONFIG): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/magento2/vendor/colinmollenhour/cache-backend-file/File.php on line 663  

cron:run [--group="..."] [--bootstrap="..."]

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Created 8 years ago
Comments: 17 (6 by maintainers)

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I used apache as webserver and this cron setting fixed my issue:

* * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /path to magento2/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /path to magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
* * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /path to magento2/update/cron.php >> /path to magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
* * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /path to magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /path to magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

I run a magento 2 instance on aws ubuntu 14.04 trusty

giappv on Oct 7, 2016

@wired-circuit why don’t you let magento run as www-data:www-data? It just makes things easier.

But to be honest I had the same issue after running the setup:static-content:deploy command. Trying to open the magento2-instance in chrome: Permission Denied: Some Cache File has the ownership root:root with restricted rights -> execution error, because webserver-user can’t open/read it.

The problem was that I executed the command as root-user. All php bin/magento commands should be run as file-owner/webserver-user, e.g. as www-data.

just simply execute magento commands like: sudo -u www-data php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy de_DE sudo -u www-data php bin/magento cache:flush and so on…

that should do the trick. hopefully it’s not too late for you!

juhanix on Sep 1, 2016