Ubuntu 14.04 deleted www directory from /var/www and need to restore it

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I am new to Ubuntu as of yesterday and trying to upload a new site. When I was attempting to delete everything from /var/www I accidentally deleted the www directory as well. What steps do I need to take to rebuild/recover the directory with all of the appropriate permissions?

So you want to restore the directory even if it's empty, rather than wanting to recover the files? "recreate a directory" vs "recover deleted files" are quite different things. — roadmr, Apr 02 '15 at 20:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '15 at 20:36

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Taking the recommended permissions from https://askubuntu.com/a/51337/175814, as super-user run:

mkdir -m 0775 /var/www
chown www-data:www-data /var/www

answered Apr 02 '15 at 20:36

David Foerster

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Aren't we supposed to have stuff in /var/www/html now? – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Apr 02 '15 at 23:03
I don't understand, how this would affect the issue at hand. (I'm hearing that for the first time.) – David Foerster Apr 02 '15 at 23:19
Well, if he wants to reproduce the original layout, I think it should include /var/www/html. Not a big deal by any means, I just thought I'd mention it. – Jo-Erlend Schinstad Apr 03 '15 at 10:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 02 '15 at 23:56

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If you haven't yet tried reinstalling Apache, try that. You can do so by running:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall apache2

edited Apr 02 '15 at 23:56

Eliah Kagan

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answered Apr 02 '15 at 21:34

Ubuntu 14.04 deleted www directory from /var/www and need to restore it

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