Using LAMP With Ubuntu Desktop

Question

So, I'm using Ubuntu desktop and have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL, all working great.

I want to use start adding files and folders to /var/www using the file manager, but my user doesn't have permissions to do this.

Any ideas what permissions I need to update?

Answer 1

Create a directory in your home, ie:

mkdir ~/my_dir

then, create a symbolic link in /var/www/:

ln -s ~/my_dir /var/www/my_dir

This allows you to write to the directory. If apache needs to access, you must change the group to all the directories where you want this to happen:

sudo chown -R <user>:www-data ~/my_dir 

Answer 2

Try this:

sudo adduser <username> www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

The user should be able to edit /var/www/ without any problems.

Answer 3

You may also start nautilus as root:

sudo -i nautilus &