Laravel and Docker permission issue - can't save files

General
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I already saw the solution from this post: "Laravel & Docker: The stream or file "/var/www/html/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to open stream: Permission denied - Stack Overflow

But this solution is not sufficient

The problem is that if I do what is said in the solution, i.e. to run chown -R www-data:www-data * inside the Docker container - it also changes the permission on the actual folder in the Ubuntu host, not just the container, because I set this folder in the docker-compose.yml file:

php:        
    build:
        context: ./laravel
        dockerfile: Dockerfile
    container_name: laravel
    volumes:
        - ./laravel:/var/www/html

and my user in the Ubuntu host is myuser so when I run the chown -R www-data:www-data *, myuser no longer has permissions on the host, and I can’t save files.

So I either get Permission denied on the localhost URL (as seen in the other post), or I get Permission Denied to save files on VS Code on my Ubuntu host! (I am using WSL2, that’s why I can use VS Code)

To sum it up:

  1. To be able to save files on my mounted volume, I have to save it as the Ubuntu user, i.e. myuser so I have to run sudo chown -R myuser ~/myproject
  2. But because certain files in Laravel expects writable permission by www-data, I can’t get to my website at localhost - as seen in the post above.
  3. If I change the permissions in the Docker container using chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/, I lose myuser permissions in the host and can’t save files again, and vice versa.
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Also posted, and solved, on Laravel and Docker permission issue - can't save files - Stack Overflow.