# The /var/www/mautic/app/logs directory must be writable **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [July 15, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505 "2016-07-15T02:26:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Waldemiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@Waldemiro](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waldemiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/1 "2016-07-15T02:26:11Z")
Guys, After a fresh install of Mautic 2.0, I can’t solve just one major problem: “The /var/www/mautic/app/logs directory must be writable. Change the permissions of the /var/www/mautic/app/logs directory so that the web server can write into it.”. I’m using Ubuntu Linux, and tried to recreate ‘logs’ folder, change permissions of it (with “sudo chmod -R 775 logs”), etc. Nothing works! Could you help me? Thanks! Waldemiro ---
**Author:** ![Waldemiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@Waldemiro](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waldemiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/2 "2016-07-15T02:26:11Z")
Guys, After a fresh install of Mautic 2.0, I can’t solve just one major problem: “The /var/www/mautic/app/logs directory must be writable. Change the permissions of the /var/www/mautic/app/logs directory so that the web server can write into it.”. I’m using Ubuntu Linux, and tried to recreate ‘logs’ folder, change permissions of it (with “sudo chmod -R 775 logs”), etc. Nothing works! Could you help me? Thanks! Waldemiro ---
**Author:** ![prowebspot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/prowebspot/32/22_2.png) [@prowebspot](https://forum.mautic.org/u/prowebspot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/3 "2016-07-15T03:01:15Z")
I found out, the ‘logs’ folder doesn’t exist at all. So I just created new ‘logs’ folder in app directory. That works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Waldemiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@Waldemiro](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waldemiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/4 "2016-07-15T13:51:09Z")
Unfortunately, this was my first action, and didn’t solve the problem… ---
**Author:** ![theatereleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@theatereleven](https://forum.mautic.org/u/theatereleven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/5 "2016-07-15T14:13:25Z")
Make sure the web user has rights to the folder. Example - from a command line in Debian/Ubuntu type: chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yoursites.com/app/logs Just modify the path to go to your mautic install. ---
**Author:** ![Waldemiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@Waldemiro](https://forum.mautic.org/u/Waldemiro)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/6 "2016-07-15T21:27:28Z")
Worked perfectly! Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![theatereleven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85e7bf/32.png) [@theatereleven](https://forum.mautic.org/u/theatereleven)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/the-var-www-mautic-app-logs-directory-must-be-writable/4505/7 "2016-07-15T21:34:49Z")
Great! np.