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127 questions linked to/from How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
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Shortcuts on my desktop? [duplicate]
I'm new to Ubuntu. I have 14.04 release, and I wanted to add a shortcut of /var/www to my desktop, since I want to do some PHP development.
I went to /var/www to make a link, but my right-click menu ...
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CHMOD file/folder permissions for LAMP [duplicate]
My php project reported error: unable to write file. I found that might be caused by permission guaranteed for directory containing my project files.
I did this:
sudo chown [username]:[username] -R [...
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You don't have permisission necessary to save the file,PHP Apache [duplicate]
I just installed LAMP server, which works fine. But when I code a PHP script and try to save it in /var/www/html, it says:
You don't have permisission necessary to save the file
Help me! How do I ...
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How to save projects file in htdocs [duplicate]
I am a php developer. I've been developing projects on a Windows system. Now I have completely switched to Ubuntu. I've installed XAMPP on my Ubuntu 16.04. I am not able to save my web files on htdocs ...
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Setting correct permissions on var/www/html/ [duplicate]
After reinstalling 15.1 I have a lot of problems with my permissions. I constantly have to adjust them manually. That means I'm doing it wrong.
Here is what I do:
I create a folder. The ...
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mv: cannot move 'DVWA-master' to '/var/www/html/DVWA-master': Permission denied [duplicate]
$ mv DVWA-master /var/www/html
mv: cannot move 'DVWA-master' to '/var/www/html/DVWA-master': Permission denied
How can I fix it?
I want to move a folder in /var/www/html.
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Can I change apache web server user and group? [duplicate]
I'm not too familiar with file ownership etc. in Linux but here's my problem. I log into my ubuntu (dev machine) which is local as let's say user abc group xyz.
Now files that reside under /var/www/...
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Change permission for ALL folders and files [duplicate]
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How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
I've been around Ubuntu for not too long now and I'm getting tired of a thing I used to accept. When I installed Apache and ...
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Wordpress Could not create directory [duplicate]
I am trying to install a plugin for Wordpress on Ubuntu 14.04 Server but it keeps failing. I assume it is a rights issue because of a directory not being able to create. This is my last ditch effort I ...
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How to add $USER to www-data group for me to edit the files freely on my project? [duplicate]
I just installed a fresh Ubuntu 16.10 and just finished setting up LAMP Stack.
currently my Sublime Text keeps asking me authentication every time I edit a file.
Lamp Stack was installed using root ...
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How to Allow two users to access one directory. (tried groups but failed) [duplicate]
I want to allow access to 2 users on one directory. I am trying since days but unable to do so! Let me make it simple for you guys to understand by giving a simple example. But first, Let me tell you ...
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Setting permissions for /var/www/mysite? [duplicate]
After looking around this site, it's been said that it's best practice to use 644 permission for my websites in /var/www.
So I have done chmod 644 /var/www/mysite
I now no longer have access to the ...
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Giving myself permission to edit files with a text editor on var/www/drupal [duplicate]
I'm very new to Linux and Ubuntu. I just installed a Drupal site locally on my machine for development purposes only. However, the only way I seem to be able to edit files is by running 'sudo nano '. ...
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Run Apache as separate User and Group [duplicate]
I'm having a little trouble understanding the recommendation to setup a separate user for the file permissions of www/html folder in apache. See point 5 from this
The recommendation is out of the box ...
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Can't access uploaded image to generate thumbnail in PHP [duplicate]
I had trouble fixing the file uploading, but then I ran chmod a+w /var/www and it worked - files were being uploaded to my specified directory.
However, my script also generates a thumbnail ...
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