how to enable to create New document or new folder in var/www/html ? "my Ubuntu is 16.04"
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Do you have the permissions needed to create the file? Please provide more information as to what you are trying to do and how – Dylan May 01 '16 at 19:50
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3Possible duplicate of Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to "/var/www"? – guntbert May 05 '16 at 18:16
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2the only issue I see with this answer would be that /var/www should be owned by www-data:www-data. Wouldn't it have been more compatible to add the user to the www-data group? – John Orion May 01 '16 at 20:12
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2You should avoid changing the system-wide files and directories to specific users. You should either use the elevated (
sudo) command to editing the create the needed files or add the username to the group of the owner. You can also (as the second answer specifies), create a subfolder and make it owned by the user or group you intend to read/write access to it. – L. D. James May 02 '16 at 04:32 -
@L.D.James;@JohnOrion.. I'm newer in ubuntu and i didn't know what to do but @magneto10's answer helped me:) – R.Teloyan May 02 '16 at 17:40
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2This post is actually a workaround and the disclaimers of what this would cause (as pointed out by @L.D.James) should be clearly stated in the post. – Andrea Lazzarotto May 05 '16 at 16:05
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After try this sudo chown -R $USER:$USER usr in centos 7 , user login issue, before the command user login working. @Magneto10 – Gem Oct 01 '19 at 04:48
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To do it from the terminal:
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/YOUR_DIRECTORY_NAME
You don't want to give yourself ownership of /var/www/html
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1"You don't want to give yourself ownership of /var/www/html" good point but the "why?" should also be explained. – SarpSTA Mar 23 '19 at 13:20