Messed up with /var/www/ file permissions

[claudiodemendonca]

Hello, I think I've been messing up too much with file permissions. So much so that I now can't copy anything to/from the directory /var/www/. I can't even access any html content placed under that folder through a web browser.

I think everything started after I did this:

sudo chown www-data.www-data /var/www/ -R
sudo chmod o-rwx /var/www/ -R

The thing is, I couldn't find a way to really undo that.

Any clue will be appreciated!

[kubicle]

Re: Messed up with /var/www/ file permissions

With those commands, you changed user and group ownerships to www-data and then denied all others access. So currently only user www-data and members of group www-data have access to /var/www.

Probably not what you had in mind. Without knowing how you want the permissions/ownerships set up it's impossible to give detailed help, but you can temporarily add permissions with chmod [ugo]+[rwx], for example, you can give full access to var/www/ with

sudo chmod -R o+rwx /var/www/

NOTE that this is probably not what you want (giving write access to all), but it'll give you temporary access while you go back to the drawing board.

[ubuntuku]

Re: Messed up with /var/www/ file permissions

The following commands should fix it:

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
sudo adduser yourusername www-data