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Asked: 2013-08-20 02:36:02 +0800 CST

How to add permission to write to /var/www for my FTP client

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I'm trying to install Tapatalk plugin on my phpbb3 forum

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Write method for automod is FTP and connection is successful. I think the FTP client might not have write permission to /var/www. How can I fix that? I'm using Ubuntu Server 12.04 with vsftpd.

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  1. Best Answer

    You could change the ownership of /var/www to be the same owner that your FTP client uses.

    For example if your FTP client runs as 'nobody' then use this command:

    sudo chown nobody:nobody /var/www

    Be aware that this will allow your FTP client to do anything to any of the files in /var/www and subdirectories. This might be a security risk. After the install is completed, you could always switch the ownership back to the root user again with:

    sudo chown root:root /var/www
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  2. Changing ownership of /var/www from apache to nobody, is not a good idea ;) Maybe try instead usermod -d /var/www -m ftpuser and go from there?

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