Add files to /var/www/

Question

I just installed lamp-server^ and wanted to try it I created a php file but I was not able to move it to /var/www because owner of that folder is root I managed it using terminal (I logged in as root). But I dont want to do it everytime. Is there any other way to do it? I dont want to use terminal every time I want to try to access that folder.

Answer 1

I don't know how it is done in LAMP, but a pure Apache setup has a user group called www-data with write permission into /var/www.

To achieve the same result, follow these steps:

1. Create the group www-data, if not already existent (check with grep www-data /etc/group):

   groupadd www-data

2. Transfer group ownership of /var/www to www-data, if not already done:

   sudo chgrp www-data /var/www
   

3. Add your user to the www-data group:

   sudo usermod -a -G www-data <username>
   

4. Fix permissions, if necessary (give full permission to group members):

   sudo chmod g+rwx /var/www
   

Now you can access the directory without sudoing.