Some problems after migration

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Hi, I’ve migrated my installation to a new server. I’ve done a database dump from my old installation, use Softaculous to install Ninja Invoice on the new server, imported the database with phpMyAdmin, configure Invoice Ninja and was able to login after a bit of trouble. The trouble that I still have is

  1. when I want to log in, I go to my address biling.mywebsite.com, I have the login page, put my credentials, but my browser stay on biling.mywebsite.com/login, I have to refresh the page, or manually remove /login to be able to go to biling.mywebsite.com/dashboard, after that it’s ok 'till next logout

  2. everything seems to be back in my Invoice Ninja, I have my products, clients, tasks that I can access, I have all the list of invoices, payments, but if I try to edit or see an invoice or payment, I have a “Whoops, looks like something went wrong.”

  3. Some of the folders in the installation are in 777 chmod, is it normal (like storage and his content) ?

Any idea what I can do ? Thank you !

here’s the latest errors :
[2020-02-18 19:50:40] production.ERROR: Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“POST”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:1,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“login”} []
[2020-02-18 19:50:55] production.ERROR: Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“POST”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:1,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“login”} []
[2020-02-18 19:51:17] production.ERROR: ErrorException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“GET”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:2,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“invoices/21/edit”} []
[2020-02-18 19:54:00] production.ERROR: ErrorException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“GET”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:3,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“invoices/32/edit”} []
[2020-02-18 19:54:02] production.ERROR: ErrorException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“GET”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:4,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“invoices/32/edit”} []
[2020-02-18 20:05:52] production.ERROR: Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“POST”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:1,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“login”} []
[2020-02-18 20:09:07] production.ERROR: ErrorException [0] : /home/atakaneq/ninja/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/Encrypter.php [Line 195] => The MAC is invalid. (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) (View: /home/atakaneq/ninja/resources/views/partials/email_templates.blade.php) {“context”:“PHP”,“user_id”:1,“account_id”:1,“user_name”:“Patric Favreau”,“method”:“GET”,“user_agent”:“Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.106 Safari/537.36”,“locale”:“fr_CA”,“ip”:“45.44.224.215”,“count”:2,“is_console”:“no”,“is_api”:“no”,“db_server”:“mysql”,“url”:“invoices/31/edit”} []

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Well well well, I saw a post with a similar issue, that talk about the APP_KEY that changed, so I’ve put back my old APP_KEY and I can now login normally, and have access to my invoices and payments.

So I guess the question left is

  1. Some of the folders in the installation are in 777 chmod, is it normal (like storage and his content) ?
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Invoice Ninja does require the webserver account (usually www-data, but depends on your specific setup) to have full permissions on the /storage folder. 777 is basically full access for any user on the entire system. I normally use 775, which gives the user and group specified by chown full permission, but denies write access to any other user.