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Omid
Asked: 2013-12-07 03:00:33 +0800 CST

Apache could not access to copied folder: 403 Access Forbidden

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I'm new to Ubuntu.

I have installed LAMP on Ubuntu and everything is OK but while I copy a folder into /var/www it is not accessible via URL. I have tried following commands:

sudo cp -r Desktop/site /var/www
sudo chown myuser /var/www -R 
sudo chmod 755 /var/www -R

Also:

sudo chown myuser /var/www/site -R 
sudo chmod 755 /var/www/site -R

I event don't see the folder while try list directories (http://localhost/). However, it's ok while I create a folder manually using sudoo mkdir command.

What should I do and what's the matter ?

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3 Answers

  1. You have your syntax wrong. Try:

    sudo chown -R <username> /var/www

    or:

    sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/www

    but the most correct way would be:

    sudo groupadd www
sudo useradd -g <username> www
sudo chown -R :www /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+rwX /var/www
sudo chmod g+s /var/www
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  2. Best Answer

    With some changes to Timo's helpful answer and a little more search, I solved it finally as below:

    sudo adduser <username> www-data
sudo usermod -a -G <username> www-data
sudo chown :www-data /var/www -R
sudo chmod g+rwX /var/www -R
sudo chmod g+s /var/www

    Then re-login and now it's working!

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  3. You should change the ownership like this:

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/site

    And then, change the directory permission like this:

    sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www

    Hope these help.

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