Magento 2: Fix Can't Create Directory Error

You may encounter below fatal error While installing Magento 2.0

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Magento\Framework\Exception\LocalizedException’ with message ‘Can’t create directory /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/var/generation/Magento/Framework/App/ResourceConnection/.’ in /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/Code/Generator.php:103 Stack trace: #0 /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/Code/Generator/Autoloader.php(35): Magento\Framework\Code\Generator->generateClass(‘Magento\Framewo…’) #1 [internal function]: Magento\Framework\Code\Generator\Autoloader->load(‘Magento\Framewo…’) #2 [internal function]: spl_autoload_call(‘Magento\Framewo…’) #3 /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/Code/Reader/ClassReader.php(19): ReflectionClass->__construct(‘Magento\Framewo…’) #4 /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Definition/Runtime.php(44): Magento\Framework\Code\Reader\ClassReader->getConstructor(‘Magento\Framewo…’) #5 /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/ObjectManager/Factory/Dynamic/Developer.php(7 in /home/tahir/www/magento-2.0/vendor/magento/framework/Code/Generator.php on line 103

Solution:

Changing permissions of /var directory will solve the issue. Run below command from root of your Magento 2.0 directory.

 cd path/to/your/magento/root sudo chmod 755 -R var