I am trying to migrate my wp site from local to my digital ocean account using the wp plugin duplicator.
I get an error message when I run the duplicator installer that says that my folder Path: /var/www/html/foldername is not writable by php.
How can I set the required permissions?
When I click the folder in filezilla, the permissions are set to 755
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if on CentOS/Fedora:
chown apache:apache /var/www/html/ -R
if on Ubuntu/Debian:
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html -R
I’m on ubutu and tried the suggested command.
Unfortunately I got an error message:
chown: changing ownership of '/var/www/html/apply': Operation not permitted
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
its worked for me
may be run this code also
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www
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