File creating permission Denied

Question

I have removed Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 14.04.

I have successfully installed LAMP but the problem is that I cannot save a file with a PHP extension in local-server using the Bluefish editor .

The error message is "Permission denied"

Can anyone help.

@letizia: I think he just doesn't know what sudo is, and needs some explaining... — Fabby, Dec 01 '14 at 11:38
Yes, @Fabby, I suggested that link, because there is a useful answer that explains in detail how to work on /var/www. I proposed it as dupe for this reason. edwardtorwalds has given a quick good answer and OP has accepted it, this is okey too. — Lety, Dec 01 '14 at 12:24

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 30 '14 at 12:54

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you need to get permission to read/write in /var/www folder:

sudo adduser <username> www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

here replace <username> with your username.

answered Nov 30 '14 at 12:54

Alex Jones

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