The directory "/.....public_html/generated/code/Magento" cannot be deleted Warning!rmdir(/.../public_html/generated/code/Magento): Directory not empty

Question

Magento 2.4.2-p1
Smartwave Porto theme
extensions from Amasty

We have the Smartwave Porto theme. It came with Mageplaza Layered Navigation but an old version. Since we have some problems that I raised with Smartwave Porto, they suggested I would upgrade to the latest Mageplaza Layered Navigation version = layered-navigation_v4.1.1_m2_ce_mageplaza.

I have done that, and when running the following command afterwards:

php bin/magento setup:di:compile

I get this Error:

The directory "/home/myaccount/public_html/generated/code/Magento" cannot be deleted Warning!rmdir(/home/myaccount/public_html/generated/code/Magento): Directory not empty

I asked Mageplaza and said the following:

...please run the command again with adding "sudo" at first.

So I've tried the following:

sudo php bin/magento setup:di:compile

and my Putty says the following:

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

and asked for the password again. Once I entered the password - it gave the following Error:

myaccount is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

When googling this topic, I found the following article:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52644737/i-cant-delete-the-folder-generated-code-in-magento-2-2-6

Here it says:

www-data must be owner of the project if using Apache as web-server. Please execute commands given below:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data [path to magento directory]
navigate to root of your magento project
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./var -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./pub/media -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find ./pub/static -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
chmod 777 ./app/etc
chmod 644 ./app/etc/*.xml
chmod u+x bin/magento

We had a problem with ownership/permissions before. Is it safe for me run these in Putty via SSH on the account itself and/or ask our hosting company to do it for me?

Answer 1

You can run the command like this one :

sudo chmod -R 777 var/ generated/ pub/
php bin/magento setup:di:compile

• Allysin: This works for me. Thank you.

Answer 2

It's worth checking with your web host to see if the file permissions are set up correctly, however you should try to clear the generated/code directory first. Try clearing the directory manually before running the compile command:

rm -r generated/code/*
php bin/magento setup:di:compile

You can refer to the devdocs for more information about clearing directories during development: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.4/howdoi/php/php_clear-dirs.html

• Allysin: This is a good solution but appears to be temporary as di:compile worked immediately after but the problem reappeared the next day.

Answer 3

Should Change the folder permissions on own via chmod and chown