How to make a directory permanently writable?
Solution 1
Numeric permissions can solve your problem.
sudo chmod 775 'your directory'
if you want to know why only 775 here's your answer
400 read by owner
040 read by group
004 read by anybody
200 write by owner
020 write by group
002 write by anybody
100 execute by owner
010 execute by group
001 execute by anybody
400
+040
+004
+200
+020
+100
+010
+001
=775
It will give all permission except write by anybody.
Solution 2
I had the same problem then
sudo chmod 777 directory
solved it.
That makes the directory writable, readable and executable by anybody. So doesn't matter what user or group owned it or used Lampp.
However, that isn't recommended if your computer is public access.
Solution 3
Usually the command you used should change the permissions permanently.
Try sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/
(which basically is the same). If that doesn't work you might need to change the owner [and maybe the group] of the directory via sudo chown <user>[:<group>] /var/www/
.
Also, you might consider the 'permission denied error' could be caused by insufficient access rights in your database or elsewhere.
potomato
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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potomato over 1 year
I am using LAMP stack for development and I have a problem with making /var/www permanently writable. I use this command:
sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/www
This works, but after putting a web app and accessing it through a browser, it show a "permission denied" error. When that happens, I have to the execute the command again.
How can I make the directory writable, permanently, without having to run the command again?
Thanks!
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Anam Ahmed about 11 yearscreate a subfolder in
/var/www
and change permisson for that directory. That should fix the issue -
Goran Miskovic about 11 yearsActually you should never ever make web root writable. See For security reasons why should /var/www not have chmod 777?
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precise over 10 yearsthese are some good comments above... considering the security reasons, you should keep permission for
/var/www
to default rwxr-xr-x and you'd probably move the required files to a sub-directory in/var/www
and make changes to your *html files accordingly for the changes you've made to the document root.
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Weasel about 11 yearsBut as @schkovich already mentioned you should not make the web root folder writeable.
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Marcel over 9 years+Rinzwind I used 777 and am patiently waiting your visit.
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Yarh almost 8 yearsit worked for me if i use it without slashes e.g
sudo chmod -R 775 my_folder
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Dheeraj over 7 years@Marcel is now dead guys, @ Rinzwind ended him
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Marcel over 7 years@Dheeraj Then who is this...
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Dheeraj over 7 years@Marcel how do we know its the real you, what if @ Rinzwind tore marcel's face and wore it.
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Joe over 6 yearsThanks @Marcel! Using 777 worked for me when 775 and nothing else worked! Now my folder is finally writable! (Sorry @Rinzwind).
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Sabrina over 3 yearsit works on macOS.