Permissions for /var/www/html [closed]

You just need 775 for /var/www/html as long as you are logging in as myuser. The 7 octal in the middle (which is for "group" acl) ensures that the group has permission to read/write/execute. As long as you belong to the group that owns the files, "myuser" should be able to write to them. You may need to give group permissions to all the files in the docuemnt root, though:

chmod -R g+w /var/www/html

I have just been in a similar position with regards to setting the 777 permissions on the apache website hosting directory. After a little bit of tinkering it seems that changing the group ownership of the folder to the "apache" group allowed access to the folder based on the user group.

1) make sure that the group ownership of the folder is set to the group apache used / generates for use. (check /etc/groups, mine was www-data on Ubuntu)

2) set the folder permissions to 774 to stop "everyone" from having any change access, but allowing the owner and group permissions required.

3) add your user account to the group that has permission on the folder (mine was www-data).

log in as root user:

sudo supassword:

then go and do what you want to do in var/www