After running Amazon EC2 instance with Ubuntu Linux you may have problems with permissions on /var/www/ folder.
Your default user you login to Amazon instance may have no permissions to create files in www folder. To fix this you need to add your user to www-data group (on Ubuntu).
To best share with multiple users who should be able to write in /var/www, it should be assigned a common group.
The default group for web content on Ubuntu and Debian is www-data.
Make sure all the users who need write access to /var/www are in this group.
sudo usermod -a -G www-data <some_user>
Then set the correct permissions on /var/www.
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www
Additionally, you should make the directory and all directories below it “set GID”, so that all new files and directories created under /var/www are owned by the www-data group.
sudo find /var/www -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
Find all files in /var/www and add read and write permission for owner and group:
sudo find /var/www -type f -exec chmod ug+rw {} \;
These instructions were found here.
Devin Walker says:
Very helpful, thanks! I’m an AWS noob…
SB says:
Me too
ajay says:
How can you restrict users to delete file from /var/www/html ?