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27 questions linked to/from Why shouldn't /var/www have chmod 777
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What "chmod 777 -R / " does in /var/www/html/.../.../.../? [duplicate]
Unfortunately I was rushing and ran sudo chmod 777 -R / inside one project. Should I worry that it started to add 777 permission for all my folder starting from root (/) ?
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How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
I want to stop having to use sudo everytime I work in /var/www. How can I do that? I simply want to put all of my sites into this directory and work with them without too much pain.
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How can I chmod 777 all subfolders of /var/www?
I’m running a webserver and FTP server, wherein /var/www is bound to /home/user/www.
I set both directories to chmod 777 (which is fine since it’s for testing only).
I can upload files into /home/...
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How to make a directory permanently writable?
I am using LAMP stack for development and I have a problem with making /var/www permanently writable. I use this command:
sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/www
This works, but after putting a web app and ...
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How do file permissions work?
Can you explain briefly the main concepts and command line tools used to manage file permissions?
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Should I symlink my /var/www directory to my home?
I have just installed Ubuntu Server 10.04 with a LAMP setup. I want to host a website there but I'm not sure which is the best way to get/edit my files on the server. Googling provides many options ...
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How to give read write permission to a folder and its sub folders and files?
I have changed ownership of my localhost file on /var/www/ and its sub folders and given it permission 777. However, whenever I add a new folder in it the new folder does not automatically get that ...
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How to repair "sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440?"
Why might sudo chmod -R a+w * cause
sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0640, should be 0440 sudo:
no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
and how might it be made to work?
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Setting directory file permissions in Ubuntu using chmod
whats the equivalent command of this (Fedora command) for Ubuntu:
chmod +a "www-data allow delete,write,append,file_inherit,directory_inherit" app/cache app/logs
When I try the above with Ubuntu (10....
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Read and write permissions for Owncloud www-data
I have owncloud running in Ubuntu server
I have enabled external storage pointing to second hard drive in my machine and added a local storage
I can see the folder in owncloud but when I click on it ...
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How to mkdir -p -m 777 to all missing pathname directories?
I'm putting a file in cron.hourly which needs to create a folder on the 1st time, and giving it access to an user so i don't need to use sudo if i want to remove all content in the folder. And in it ...
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Permanent chmod 777
How can I set chmod 777 for my lamp server?
I am the owner of the www folder (sudo chown -R martin www).
I have changed the permissions of all files (sudo chmod 777 -R www).
I don't know why, but my ...
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Are world-writable folders safe?
Is it safe to chmod a directory 777, or is it a security risk?
One of my scripts requires that in order to run in multi-user situations, and I'm wondering if it's okay.
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How to give root access to a wine application [duplicate]
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 ...
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WordPress asks for FTP credentials, even though owner of the whole /var/www is www-data
I'm trying to get WordPress to run on my local Ubuntu 12.10 installation.
When I try to install themes/plugins, it asks me for FTP credentials.
I've been trying to get this to work for 2 days now. ...
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How to access my codeigniter folder in ubuntu?
I have deployed my codeigniter folder into /var/www/html . But when i am trying to access it using http://localhost/CodeIgniter/ this is showing Server error
500
The website encountered an error ...
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How to fix sudo after “chmod -R 777 /var”?
I executed chmod 777 /var and now Ubuntu won't start, can anyone tell me what I did wrong? And if there is a way of going back?
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Skype fails to start after installation from downloaded deb package
i installed skype wiht the amd64.deb file that i downloaded from skype.com
but when i click it via dash it wont start.
after that i tried it from the gnome-terminal i get this
i have a dutch Ubuntu i ...
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Why shouldn't I set 777 permission to /var/www?
I know I am not the first to ask about it, but it's still not clear to me.
I mean, on this post we can read that
777 is a bad permission in general and I'll show you why.
Despite how it may look in a ...
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Why is everything write protected?
I have searched and searched and can't find anything specific to my problem.
I am a Mac user, new to Ubuntu. I wiped my HP notebook and installed 32-bit (no choice) Ubuntu. Then I installed the ...
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Open serial port without root priviledges on Ubuntu (udev rules)
I was following this tutorial to setup access to Flir Boson camera serial port from userspace:
https://www.forecr.io/blogs/connectivity/how-to-integrate-flir-boson-thermal-camera-to-nvidia-jetson-...
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How to Remove Recursively grant ownership
I recently switched from Windows 8.1 to Ubuntu.
Yesterday, I wanted to install PHP but during tutorial I did this:
sudo chown -R joy /var/www
but now onward for every command it ask for password
$...
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Samba Sharing on Mapped Share
I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04 with the latest samba. I have a Windows 2008 Storage Server NAS with a shared drive, that I mount in fstab in my Ubuntu. Everything works great.
My dilemma is that ...
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How to create new files or modify existing files in a sym link?
I am new to the LAMP environment.
I wanted to create files directly in my home directory instead of always copying it to /var/www.
I created a sym link using the following command :
ln -s /var/www ~/...
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Unable to open ubuntu in virtual box 6.1 after changing system permissions [duplicate]
I had virtual box previously installed and it worked fine until I created a new user and gave it permissions using:
sudo chmod -R 777 /
After that when I closed and reopened my virtual box I could not ...
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Projects in /var/www folder are not accessible? [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and come from Ubuntu 13.04.
First check locahost, It's work fine. PhpMyAdmin is also work fine. I look some related problem here. But some similarities with this answer and ...
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alternative to chmod 777 in LAMP [duplicate]
Typically after installing LAMP I like to install phpmyadmin and be allowed to drop folders in var/www/. I run sudo chmod 777 only because the LAMP is on a LAN. I was curious to know what is the ...