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ubuntu lamp permissions

  • 04-09-2009 12:51AM
    #1
    Marina-anseo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭


    I cannot save nor edit anything in my www folder, could anyone tell me the terminal commands to change the permission to the administrator? thanks


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  • #2
    ronivek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭ronivek


    Belongs in the Unix forum methinks; but check out chown and chmod. Below is an example for pulling up the man document for chown; you can also to the same for chmod and subsequently decide which one suits your needs.

    Alternatively you can google for examples.
    man chown


  • #3
    Evil Phil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Moved from programming.


  • #4
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Marina-anseo2 wrote: »
    I cannot save nor edit anything in my www folder, could anyone tell me the terminal commands to change the permission to the administrator? thanks
    Do you mean you can't save/edit as root (the administrator), or you need to know how to edit files owned by root?

    If it's the former, use chown/chmod as mentioned, if it's the latter use sudo.


  • #5
    Marina-anseo2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭Marina-anseo2


    After much googling i managed it:D i changed the directory to /var and i used chown to change the ownership of /www to the my account name so i could edit and save files to in the www folder... chmod didnt seem to do anything but perhaps i didnt use it correctly.. lamp works perfect now though:) thank you for your help


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