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404 Error with existing files

Posted on June 26, 2013

Hi, I just start a new server and had installed LAMP and Proftpd on UBUNTU, I do some test and work great but now I can’t view any page on my server; it always give me the 404 Not Found error even when the files exist on the server.

What I’ve to do?



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Check Apache’s error logs: “tail /var/log/apache2/error.log” - do you see any errors there?

Ok, the problem is that Proftpd upload the files to Home>USER and dont let me upload to var>www because the USER I using have no Permission. But how can I add the USER to the same group that owns /var/www and then setting /var/www to group writeable?

Thanks you for help me @Kamal Nasser, I solve the problem with: sudo chown -R username:username /var/www. <br> <br>DO is great!

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