LAMP server and Im new!

**TheNardCake** · April 28th, 2012

Hi! Im new to ubuntu really! Anyways Installed ubuntu on my laptop to run a temporary webserver on it. I installed the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Php) server. It's all working fine, but I was trying to put my website on the server by dragging all my folders and stuff into /var/www and it said I don't have permission. Im very confused because 1. Im the only user. 2. Im the admin the one who installed it and ya...?
Very confused any help is very much appreciated!
(was this the right place to post...?)

**sundays211** · April 28th, 2012

By default, only the root user has write access to /var/www.
Is it possible to point lamp to read from a different directory? Much easier if you have it reading from a subfolder in your home directory

**TheNardCake** · April 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by sundays211

By default, only the root user has write access to /var/www.
Is it possible to point lamp to read from a different directory? Much easier if you have it reading from a subfolder in your home directory

Woah im brand new what does that mean?

Im litterally in the file browser going to that directory.
Edit: Ok so if I figure out how to do that it should work? Well thats just another thing to do...

**sundays211** · April 28th, 2012

You can do one of two things:
1) Change the permissions of the /var/www directory (by typing

Code:

sudo chmod a+w /var/www

into the terminal)

2) Point the server to a different directory. This you can do by editing the apache2 config file:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

and changing

Code:

DocumentRoot /var/www

and

Code:

<Directory /var/www/>

to your desired folder name.

for example, if you create a folder in your home directory called 'www', then you would change it to

Code:

/home/[your username]/www

**TheNardCake** · April 28th, 2012

Originally Posted by sundays211

You can do one of two things:
1) Change the permissions of the /var/www directory (by typing

Code:

sudo chmod a+w /var/www

into the terminal)

2) Point the server to a different directory. This you can do by editing the apache2 config file:

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

and changing

Code:

DocumentRoot /var/www

and

Code:

<Directory /var/www/>

to your desired folder name.

for example, if you create a folder in your home directory called 'www', then you would change it to

Code:

/home/[your username]/www

Thank you so much!

**sundays211** · April 28th, 2012

No problem, though if you have a problem in the future and you still don't know a lot about Ubuntu, you might like to try the "Absolute Beginner Talk" forum

**fragos** · April 29th, 2012

What I do is to put links in /var/www that point to the sites stored in my /home folder. To make the links you can Alt+F2 gksudo nautilus /var/www. The folder is now opened by root so you can easily create the links.