How to fix a permissions problem on www folder?

Question

I have created a directory in my www folder using terminal and root user. Then, create some text files in that folder (with terminal and root user).

Now, when I want to access these files and directory via browser, Apache said:

403 Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /folder on this server.

Other files and folders in www directory are accessible via browser (I uploaded them via FTP client).

How can this be fixed?

Solution

run this command in the terminal after navigating to www folder:

    sudo chmod 755 *     

Comments

[95faf8e76605e973]

folder is set to 755, and files are 644. I tried this command: chown www-data:www-data folder, but it said: invalid user: www-data

[prophecy201]

Did you installed apache from apt? It should create a user and a group called "www-data". What does id www-data say? Take a look in "/etc/apache2/envvars" What is set for export APACHE_RUN_USER and export APACHE_RUN_GROUP? Try to chown your files to this user and group.