Ubuntu : Add, edit, delete in var/www directory issue

Question

I just installed Ubuntu with LAMP, to use it as development and test server.

Under terminal and using : sudo, I created a php test file and it's working, but I can't copy files using the graphical interface of Ubuntu to the var/www directory.

I can only Create, Copy, Moving files under Terminal using sedo.

How to give the default user permissions to manage the www directory ?

Thanks in advance.

Consider setting up permissions like described in [this question](http://serverfault.com/questions/6895/whats-the-best-way-of-handling-permissions-for-apache2s-user-www-data-in-var-w/6899#6899). — Zoredache, Jul 12 '11 at 21:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '11 at 21:17

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There are many ways to do that but you can set group permissions of /var/www to www-data (rwx) for example (apache's user and group) and you can give the www-data group to your user.

answered Jul 12 '11 at 21:17

laurent

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '11 at 21:18

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go to shell and write:

    chown -R yourusername /var/www/* 
    chmod -R 755 /var/www/*

answered Jul 12 '11 at 21:18

Hrvoje Kusulja

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Giving all files +x is a baaaaaaad idea. – womble Jul 12 '11 at 23:28

Ubuntu : Add, edit, delete in var/www directory issue

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