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var/www access denied

Asked by Carl Njoku

Hello Guys,

I am new to ubuntu but i managed to install ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop, because i write web application in php i downloaded and install LAMP but unfortunately i have not been able to upload php file to /var/www directory getting access denied error, i have googled but no solution.

I need to be able to save to this directory, any help

Thanks

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BabyGeek (babygeek) said : 		#1

Hello,
Open a terminal (CTRL + T) then type: sudo nautilus /var/www
you'll have all the access rights for your directory.

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Carl Njoku (flavoursoft) said : 		#2

Thanks for your reply, but this the output i got

Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

** (nautilus:4995): WARNING **: Failed to get the current CK session: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '4995'

(nautilus:4995): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

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BabyGeek (babygeek) said : 		#3

And nautilus doesn't start ?

I suggest you read this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions

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