give permission to /var/www [duplicate]

Question

When I write this to give permission to www directory:

zeb@zeb-Lenovo-B570:/var$ chmod 251 www/
zeb@zeb-Lenovo-B570:/var/www$ ls

Its gives error:

ls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied

I want to give permission to www folder so that I put my .php file here.
Help ?

Answer 1

use

`sudo chmod 755 /path/your/folder`

provide your password

or use this for assigning permissions recursively for sub directories.

sudo chmod -R 755 /pat/your/folder

or open nautilus with permission by

sudo nautilus 

and go to your desired folder ,right click on it and finally change its permissions as per your need.

to see permission allowed use

ls -l

it will show permissions of all the folders in Working Directory.

Answer 2

Use

sudo chmod 755 /var/www/

sudo gives you administrative permission as /var is under root directory.