LAMP and folder permissions

Newbie Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 74 Location: TX

Not sure I quite got the folder permissions squared away for my LAMP setup yet. I tried some CHOWN command line stuff but not sure I'm going it right. For some reason my main menu does not have an administration tab so I can't find alternatives for addressing it that way.

Problems I am having are: copying files into my test site and having to fix permissions each time i do so.

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:14 pm

I need to do something about these nested forums, it isn't very clear when new posts are made so sorry for the delayed reply.
To give you access to the www directory you can take ownership of it with the following snippet if you open a terminal window (ALT + F2). USERNAME is your PC username/login name

Code:

sudo chown USERNAME /var/www

If you already have directories inside www you'll need to recursively change ownership

Code:

sudo chown -R USERNAME /var/www

Howerver, the correct way (assuming you don't have anything inside the www directory) is to add your main user (USERNAME) to the group that owns the directory, which as fate would have it is the 'www' group.

Code:

sudo groupadd www


sudo useradd -g USERNAME www

Now we;
recursively make sure the 'www' group has ownership
recursively CHMOD

Code:

sudo chown -R :www /var/www


sudo chmod -R g+rwX /var/www


sudo chmod g+s /var/www

Newbie Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 74 Location: TX

ah don't worry about missing the thread for a bit, and thanks for taking the time to explain in detail.

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:19 am

Just found this as well for reference;
Not all flavors of *nix have a GUI for User and Group permissions but the command line commands work from this
http://joomla-and-more.com/2009/10/28/how-to-set-rights-for-varwww-when-using-apache-under-ubuntu/