I have Ubuntu 14.04 set up with a traditional LAMP stack. I can connect to sftp no problem. However, when I try and create a new folder it denies my request. I have tried two clients: FileZilla and Transmit on a mac. Thanks for any help.
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What user are you connecting as? You need to grant it permission to write to
/var/www
:If Apache needs to write to
/var/www
too, you will need to run the following commands: