How to fix a possible permissions issue?

[dustinatx]

I'm using Laragon 6 on Windows 11. I'm encountering problems with some plugins on a few WordPress installations. These seem to be related to permissions...

WP Migrate

When pulling from production to local, I'm shown an error, "wp-content/mu-plugins is not writable at the destination."

wp-content/mu-plugins doesn't exist on the local installation. If I manually create this folder, the error goes away.

It seems that WordPress running on Laragon can't create this folder on its own.

WP Rocket

Clearing the cache for WP Rocket doesn't work. Nothing happens. None of the files get deleted or re-created.

If I manually delete the cache folder, WP Rocket will build new files.

It seems that WordPress running on Laragon can't delete the cache folder on it's own.

Is this a permissions issue? I only have one account on this PC. It should have all permissions, as far as I know. I've tried running Laragon as an administrator, but this problem still happens.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

[Pen-y-Fan]

See my blog on permissions: How to set up Laragon on a new Windows computer (part 2) - permissions, it may help to apply permissions.

[dustinatx]

@Pen-y-Fan Thanks for your reply. I enabled the permissions from your post. Unfortunately, that had no impact on these issues.

On a side note, how can I get back to those Windows Defender screens? When I first ran Laragon, before reading your post, I closed those screens without allowing access for mysqld and httpd.

[dustinatx]

@Pen-y-Fan Disregard the Windows Defender question. I opened Windows Defender and deleted the existing rules for those applications. The next time I started services in Laragon I got the screens that let me allow access.