File creating permission Denied

Question

I have removed Windows 7 and installed Ubuntu 14.04.

I have successfully installed LAMP but the problem is that I cannot save a file with a PHP extension in local-server using the Bluefish editor .

The error message is "Permission denied"

Can anyone help.

Answer 1

you need to get permission to read/write in /var/www folder:

sudo adduser <username> www-data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

here replace <username> with your username.