What owner and mod should I give to /var/www

Question

I would like to be able to edit the source code of my website from my editor and also allow the website to load in the browser. With sudo chown -R 'www-data':'www-data'the code is not editable but loads on the browser and with sudo chown -R 'username':'username' the other way around. How can I get both?

Answer 1

First, give the ownership to www-root using the command:

sudo chown -R 'www-data':'www-data' /var/www

Then, give permissions to group members using the command:

sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

Finally add your username to the www-data group using this command:

sudo adduser your_username www-data

This way, you will be able load on the browser as well as edit the files.