Apache permissions

[angus1964]

I have just set up Apache and got it working fine. I tried to add another folder to /var/www. but when i tried to open the file in chrome with http://localhost/darts/index.html. I got the message that Permission was denied as i dont have access to that file. Is there a way to allow permission or would i have to do what is in this wiki page.http://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

[dwhitney67]

What are the permissions set to on the folder and file??

On my system, I set ownership to be root:root. Permissions on the directory is 755, and the file(s) would be 644.

[Lars Noodén]

Are you talking about not having write permissions to the web server's document root? That's easy to fix.

sudo addgroup webmasters
sudo chgrp -R webmasters /var/www

sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod g=rwxs "{}" \;
sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod g=rws  "{}" \;

# repeat for each user:
sudo gpasswd --add angus1964 webmasters

Then log out and back in again for the group membership changes to take effect.

[angus1964]

Thanks for quick reply, changing file permission to 644 made it work.

Cheers