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How to add folder creation permission to a user 'www-data'

I want to create folders like /var/www/myproject/image/DYNAMIC_FOLDER using server side scripting language PHP, so I edited /etc/sudoers and added the following line: www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD : ...
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Web root permissions: Allow a group to edit and forbid others to see the files

I am setting up Apache hosting multiple sub-domains with different developers. There is a folder for each sub-domain, and I want to have a group that is able to write and edit these files (developer ...
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How to prevent users from reading files but the webserver should still be able to read

I have a lighttpd test server on my testing machine with 2 users they all have there own folder with a public folder for the webserver in it, now I want to prevent that the other user can read the ...
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How to fix a permissions problem on www folder?

I have created a directory in my www folder using terminal and root user. Then, create some text files in that folder (with terminal and root user). Now, when I want to access these files and ...
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java exception: No such file or directory

I am trying to run a GATE application via jetty web application server in Ubuntu. I am getting java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory because of a particular GATE plugin ...
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My user can't upload files to folders owned by www-data

I think I have screwed up my permissions in Ubuntu. I am using my server to run PHP. I recently ran across a problem where PHP could not create directories in the var/www-directory, so I searched ...
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webserver folder cannot be accessed without using root [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www? My webserver folder, called www, cannot be accessed without using root. Any ideas?
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How do I allow a user to only access one directory and its content?

I am using Ubuntu Server 11.04, and I want to know how to make a user access /var/www/site1 only.
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I need to grant permission to my export directory to write to webserver, but I don't know what that is

I am installing a rather complicated program that writes to a directory and this directory needs to be able to write to my webserver. My instructions say this: Grant php/export directory ...
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Change XAMPP's htdocs web root folder to another one

I'm trying to change the XAMPP's web root default directory /opt/lampp/htocs to another one like /home/me/Dropbox/public_html without success. I've edited the file /opt/lampp/etc/httpd.conf # old ...
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Javascript is not loading

Hey, I've got a problem with JavaScript under Ubuntu, that drives me crazy. I'm using Gedit for my web sites since I'm an Ubuntu user. When I start a new website I create (usually with the gnome ...
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Ubuntu chroot “No such file or directory”

I have a web application where I create some folders on my server and put executables there. Then I try to run them with chroot but I get a message that access is denied there. I tried chmod -R 777 ...
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How to assign correct permissions to both webserver and svn users?

I've an issue with files ownerships. I have a drupal website and the "files" folder needs to be owned by "www-data" in order to let the users to upload files with php. However I'm now using svn and ...
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Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”?

Having installed the web server is there a simple way to set a user able to use the graphic interface to copy files and directories to the local web server /var/www I gave myself administrative ...
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How to give directory and file permissions to a web server

I'm a Linux newbie. I'm doing a project that uses the gosmore routing engine. In one of my email to the developer about a certain problem, he replied to me that to solve the problem: "I think you ...