Hello everyone, I’m having problems editing files in my droplet using Fetch, everything was working fine before until today… I’m basically trying to edit my style sheet but it’s not letting me edit it because i apparently don’t have the required permissions. I am able to access and view all my files and copy them to my desktop via Fetch using my SSH key, however i’m unable to delete or edit anything. When i look at the info of the folders, under ownership and permissions it displays that my current user can Read, Write, and Execute. Group: www-data same thing Read, Write, and Execute. Others : Read and Execute.
Any help is appreciated! Thanks.
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This question was answered by @EduardoMartinezDesign:
Okay i think i may have fixed my problem… Ran this… sudo chown myuser:www-data /var/www/html/wp-content changed priviledges sudo chown www-data:myuser /var/www/html/wp-content Then… sudo service ssh restart
I feel like I’ve done this before but for some reason it wasn’t working until i ran that in the terminal again, now i’m able to edit and delete files without a window popping up about not having permission.
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