How to give root access to a wine application

Question

I installed Dreamweaver 8 on Kubuntu with Wine, and I've already installed LAMP. Now I'm trying to give Dreamweaver root access to my var/www/html directory so I can write some PHP scripts but I can't find any way of doing that—is it possible?

Also is there any other native Linux app that is as good as Dreamweaver (with syntax highlighting)?

Answer 1

OK everybody calm down. You are asking to give a kid the nuclear launch codes of all countries to play with them. I recommend—let me rephrase that—I urgently, highly, extremely, recommend not giving root access to Wine but instead give permission to read and write to the www folder.

I suggest a soft link in your home folder to the www folder.

ln -s /var/www/html /home/USERNAME/www

You should now see a www folder in your home folder. If you have any permission problems you can follow one of this answers (not at my PC and I hate writing through small phones):

• Whats the simplest way to edit and add files to "/var/www"?
• Permissions issue: how can Apache access files in my Home directory?
• How to avoid using sudo when working in /var/www?
• Why shouldn't /var/www have chmod 777

Now you can simply point Dreamweaver to the link in there. I would also follow both links provided in the comments by Eliah. They both can help you in other ways.