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I am engaged in a self guided learning project (not school) to simulate a web development environment. Here is system information:

LAMP server running in VMWare WorkStation Player on Windows 7 host

  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Apache server 2.4.18
  • MySQL 5.7
  • PHP 7.0.22
  • fstp via Filezilla

When transferring files from Windows, I cannot transfer directly to the document root (/var/www/html). For organization reasons I have created sub-directories and files under the html directory. I must use an intermediate folder, which I call transfers, and then copy the file via the terminal. Because I am in a learning process, I wish to employ both best practices and efficiency.

Can I set appropriate permissions in the target directory and then create a symlink, or will permissions in the target directory's parent directories negate using this mind set? Any how/why explanations will be greatly appreciated.

Zanna
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drpepper
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    Welcome to Ubuntu. That is the hard way to do things. As a new user, please read the ubuntu documentation before you try to solve problems yourself See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP . Also read about permissions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions . For apache see https://askubuntu.com/questions/46331/how-to-avoid-using-sudo-when-working-in-var-www – Panther Nov 24 '17 at 15:00

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