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I installed Dreamweaver 8 on Kubuntu with Wine, and I've already installed LAMP. Now I'm trying to give Dreamweaver root access to my var/www/html directory so I can write some PHP scripts but I can't find any way of doing that—is it possible?

Also is there any other native Linux app that is as good as Dreamweaver (with syntax highlighting)?

Oxwivi
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danidee
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    possible duplicate of [Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/19898/whats-the-simplest-way-to-edit-and-add-files-to-var-www) or [How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/46331/how-to-avoid-using-sudo-when-working-in-var-www) (After searching about it--I think we have Dreamweaver alterantives questions already but I'm not sure--you may want to post a separate question to ask about alternatives to Dreamweaver.) – Eliah Kagan Sep 17 '14 at 15:08

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OK everybody calm down. You are asking to give a kid the nuclear launch codes of all countries to play with them. I recommend—let me rephrase that—I urgently, highly, extremely, recommend not giving root access to Wine but instead give permission to read and write to the www folder.

I suggest a soft link in your home folder to the www folder. 

ln -s /var/www/html /home/USERNAME/www

You should now see a www folder in your home folder. If you have any permission problems you can follow one of this answers (not at my PC and I hate writing through small phones):

Now you can simply point Dreamweaver to the link in there. I would also follow both links provided in the comments by Eliah. They both can help you in other ways.

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  • No `chown $USER:www-data`? – muru Sep 17 '14 at 16:40
  • Adding to that, I would recommend creating a symlink in your home directory so that you can point Dreamweaver to the directory much easily rather than navigate through Linux's directory. – Oxwivi Sep 17 '14 at 17:10
  • i didn't create a symlink but i got it working by adding permissions to the www folder.Thanks – danidee Sep 17 '14 at 17:14
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    I would follow the recommendation of @Oxwivi because it helps you navigate better and it gives you better compatibility with Wine since when configured it takes the home folder as the "Document & Settings" as in Windows. – Luis Alvarado Sep 17 '14 at 20:53