Laravel Impossible to Create Root Directory

Fixed it unknowningly by setting permissions according to comments, I used

chown -R www-data:root .

in the root of my directory

Edit: I used www-data:root, meaning set the owner of everything inside the Laravel directory to www-data (the webserver) and root being root obviously. If you do this you should do it with a non-root user or just to www-data

First, remove these folders

/public/storage

/storage/app/public

Then run the following command

php artisan storage:link