By tom542602
I stuffed up the file permissions for /var/www and now the web server and SFTP can’t see them. How do I reset the permissions with chown and chmod?
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As root, or someone with root privileges. Go to var then enter ‘chown -R user:user www’. If you want root to be able to access www enter ‘chown -R root:root www’. This will make sure that root has access to the files. <br> <br>Enter ‘chmod -R 777 /var/www’ to change the permissions of the files. <br>
Thanks Alex. Root already had access to the files. Changing the permissions to 777 did the trick.
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