By juancho
I just created a droplet Ubuntu LAMP on 14.04. I am trying to change index.html via filezilla in sftp://miusuario@mydomian.co/var/www/html/index.html Howevere, when I upload my index.hmtl I get the error Error: /var/www/html/index.html: open for write: permission denied. I am following this tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-filezilla-to-transfer-and-manage-files-securely-on-your-vps and everything worked fine until this point. What should I do? I also granted the permissions to “miusuario” suggested in this Tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-12-04 so I added the lines in visudo:
miusuario ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Thanks in advance
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If you want to be able to edit the file directly using Filezilla over SFTP, you’ll need to add your user to the www-data group and allow all members of that group to edit files. Run:
sudo usermod -a -G www-data foo
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www/html/
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