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Can't access any edit in var/www/ via SFTP

Posted on July 21, 2014

How can I access to edit anything in that directory?

Thank you



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Your command doesn’t work for me, but that https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-access-the-www-folder-on-my-machine-via-sftp

That works. Thank you.

Your way works! I’m sorry.

You need to allow your user to write to /var/www:

sudo chown -R youruser /var/www

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