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Mohammed-H's avatar

Laravel Forge touch: cannot touch '/lib/fpmlock': Permission denied

Hi everybody, I am getting this error on Laravel Forge "touch: cannot touch '/lib/fpmlock': Permission denied"

I checked the SSH key OK on both folders /home/forge/.ssh/authorized_keys file and /root/.ssh/authorized_keys.

I checked the server connection from the dashboard also OK.

My server is on Digitalocean and I have 2 websites hosted on it. And I have same message on both when trying to deploy from Github.

Any idea on how to solve this issue

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Poolghost's avatar

Same here. For me it was starting after adding a new site domain. Site works great but deploying stops.

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