Permission error into apache var/www folder on Linux mint

[X-MaaN]

Recently I have installed Linux mint and enjoying it. My issue is with Permission error into apache var/www folder. The /etc/httpd folder does not exist. I wanted to copy my projects into the /var/www folder. Help me to solve this problem by locating the /etc/httpd folder. Also how can I retrieve/ move it etc and fix the permissions as I currently set the var folder to 755?

[teena_pansare]

According to me you must have misplaced the folder. Just have a look around in /etc folder if its not there in /etc/httpd/ folder. It can also be in /etc/apache or etc/apache2 . The path may me not appropriate because I don’t know what browse address you have allocated to your projects. So try searching in different folders, it may take some time. The permission 755 regarding should be fine for /var or else you should try getting to /var/www directory.

[Enriqueta]

If you want to check the permission on on /var/www then use the below code and if you want to work inside the /var/www then you would need to have correct permission on the /var/www directory.

ls -ld /var/www/

or

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-04-29 09:50 /var/www

[mesterio]

Here is an option. You can use this, I am sure it will work.

mkdir ~/public_html
sudo ln -s ~public_html /var/www/$USER

After that command make a test.php in public_html. Also you can create folders and files w/o having to be root. Then edit the link as below:

$USER = equals my username
localhost/klyxmaster/test.php

[DanielV]

If you want to write files into /var/www as a user rather than root, the permission is required. Try the option- Add the user to a group, then change the owner of the group of the directory to www. After that set the 775 permission on /var/www. Follow the code:

groupadd www
chown -R :www /var/www
chmod -R 775 /var/www

To allow users to edit the file:

chmod -R 777 /var/www/

There are many other ways but the above two mentioned are the quicker ones.

[Deep123]

To reside the php applications in “/var/ www”, to the linked “/var/www” which is apache2's default web directory. You have to create the www directory by giving the ownership to the apache user and allow other users to access group using:

sudo mkdir /var/rails
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/rails
sudo chmod 775 /var/rails