Laravel Envoy Permissions？

Ok, so I am trying to call Envoy from a controller function but running into permissions problems that nobody else seems to be getting?

I have installed envoy globally and done a symlink to /usr/local/bin so that my site can see it. But I cannot figure out why it doesn't have permission.

I am running from Ubuntu 16.04, Nginx, PHP 7.0

Any help is appreciated:

$result = [];
         $live = false;

         $process = new \Symfony\Component\Process\Process('envoy run deploy --domain="test"');
         $process->setTimeout(3600);
         $process->setIdleTimeout(300);
         $process->setWorkingDirectory(base_path());
         $process->run(
             function ($type, $buffer) use ($live, &$result) {
                 $buffer = str_replace('[127.0.0.1]: ', '', $buffer);

                 if ($live) {
                     echo $buffer . '</br />';
                 }

                 $result[] = $buffer;
             }
         );

         dd($result);

But getting:

0 => "sh: 1: "
  1 => "envoy: Permission denied"
  2 => "
"

I believe it is the permission for the laravel app user. You should take into acccount that laravel process is owned by a different user (presumably www-data) who does not have permission to execute envoy.

To fix this, you have to tweak the permissions of the envoy which could lead to security weaknesses and time consuming on different deployments.

sudo chown www-data:www-data ~/.composer/vendor/laravel/envoy/envoy

However, I recommend that you use composer require laravel/envoy in your project and execute it from vendor/bin/envoy.

I have found a solution by using: laravelcollective.com/docs/5.0/ssh