Can I run Apache2 as my user on my Ubuntu for development purposes?

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Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to “/var/www”?
Should I as a developer use var/www in conjuction with apache?

I've gone and re-installed Ubuntu recently and I'm going thru the process of re-setup/install of some things. One is to setup Apache2, MySQL, etc, which is working correctly now.

I'm wondering if I should work my PHP/MySQL projects out of the /var/www/ directory for development purposes; or if I should create symnlinks over to my users directory; or perhaps I should just change Apache2 to run as the same user as me.

I'm the only user on this computer. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jeff

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You can add yourself to the www-data group and then use /var/www with no issues sudo adduser USERNAME www-data