How to get access to files in hostname/var/www/folder

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How can i get access to files in hostname/var/www/folder? I get an error saying not found - the requested URL /phpfiler(my created folder) was not found on this server?

If you are using 14.04 or newer, you should put your folder in `/var/www/html` and not `/var/www`. https://askubuntu.com/q/448944/8698 — Dan, Feb 12 '18 at 18:07
Could you please add a little more detail? What *exactly* did you do, what did you expect to happen and what happened instead? Did you encounter any warning or error messages? Please reproduce them *in their entirety* in your question. You can select, copy and paste terminal content and most dialogue messages in Ubuntu. Please **[edit]** your post to add information instead of posting a comment. (see [How do I ask a good question?](/help/how-to-ask)) — David Foerster, Feb 16 '18 at 13:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '18 at 14:57

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Establish a [folder] at /var/www

Change the directory owner and group:

sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/[folder]

Allow the group to write to the directory with appropriate permissions:

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

Add yourself to the www-data group:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data [user]

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Hi, I tried it but, i do not get access from the localhost/var/www/filer website. What could be the error here? – Feb 16 '18 at 11:31

derHugo · Answer 2 · 2018-02-12T18:49:39.340

Instead of adding yourself to a system group as suggested here I would recommend to just set your file ownerships to

 sudo chown <yourUser>:www-data -R /var/www

On this way you can set different permissions for your user and www-data on any file (or again on everything within a certain folder using -R as before):

The permissions you can set are

w write
r read
x execute (also needed to access folders)

A + grants the permission, a - revokes it.

=> So

to set your users' permissions on a file e.g.
```
sudo chmod u+wr /path/to/file
```
to set www-data's permissions on a file e.g. only read permission
```
sudo chmod g+r /path/to/file
sudo chmod g-wx /path/to/file
```

The same methods also apply to folders so to allow the www-data group to write into a folder:

sudo chmod g+w /path/to/folder

and if you want also to be able to write to any file within that folder

sudo chmod g+w -R /path/to/folder

For accessing folders different from /var/www/html you'll have to add a redirection.

I'll quote from here (they did it for something in /home)

If you are using apache you'll have to create an alias that makes that images accesible via the web server.

Here comes an example for apache2
  Alias /img /home/path/to/images
  <Directory "/home/path/to/images">
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
  </Directory>
Place this configuration snippet in the proper place of your apache installation e.g. end of httpd.conf or a separate file. Don't forget to restart your webserver.

Now you should be able to access the images like:
<img style="vertical-align:bottom" src="http://www.myserver.com/img/buy_button.png"border="0" />

How to get access to files in hostname/var/www/folder

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