How to resolve var www copy write permission denied

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I am a newbie in php  mysql  I have written a hello php script  which I am trying to copy into  var www directory  and will later want to open it through web browser   The problem with the same is that I am not allowed to save write any files in  var www despite me being the root  I tried implementing steps in this question  but I get the following error when I process the third line   find  var www  -type f -exec chmod g w          chmod  changing permissions of   var www index html   Operation not permitted   I know symlink is also an option  I would want to be able to write copy files directly to  var www  directory   Any suggestions on what is going wrong

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sudo chown -R  USER  USER  var www

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First of all  you need to login as root and than go to  etc directory and execute some commands which are given below    root localhost    cd  etc  root localhost  etc   vi sudoers   and enter this line at the end  kundan ALL NOPASSWD  ALL   where kundan is the username and than save it  and then try to transfer the file and add sudo as a prefix to the command you want to execute   sudo cp hello txt  home rahul program    where rahul is the second user in the same server

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sudo cp hello php  var www    What output do you get

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it matter of  unix permissions  gain root acces  for example by typing  sudo su  then type your password    and try to do what you have to do

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Encountered a similar problem today   Did not see my fix listed here  so I thought I d share   Root could not erase a file   I did my research   Turns out there s something called an immutable bit     lsattr  path file ----i--------  path file     This bit being configured prevents even root from modifying removing it   To remove this I did     chattr -i  path file   After that I could rm the file   In reverse  it s a neat trick to know if you have something you want to keep from being gone

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Execute the following command  sudo setfacl -R -m u  lt user name gt  rwx  var www   It will change the permissions of html directory so that you can upload  download and delete the files or directories

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Do you have a file in  var www called hello php already that has permissions on it  Maybe the system can t replace the file   Although  root access should supersede any user on the system    Have you tried applying permissions to the www folder   If you can do this  try the following   sudo chmod -R 777  var www  then do   sudo cp hello php  var www  I only recommend doing this if you know 100  that it is ok to set permissions on the whole www folder  By the sounds of it  you are running on your own production server as most live shared hosting servers are setup so that the www folder is not in the  var folder  instead it is in the home folder of the user     Be VERY careful when doing anything with the sudo prefix though  you can seriously damage your system if you do it wrong

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First off  this has nothing to do with php  This is a unix permission issue  You need to login as a superuser   sudo su   and type your password  then try that command     su  type password      your command    sudo command    type password    It might also help if you actually specified the operating system you use

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are you in a develpment enviroment  why just not do  chown -R user group  var www   so you will be able to write with your user

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If none of the above works  you might be dealing with a vfat filesystem   Use  df  to check   See http   www charlesmerriam com blog 2009 12 operation-not-permitted-and-the-fat-32-system  for more details

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Enter the following command in the directory you want to modify the right  for example the directory   var www html sudo setfacl -m g username rwx    - gt  for file  sudo setfacl -d -m g username  rwx    - gt  for directory  This will solve the problem  Replace username with your username

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You just have to write sudo instead of su   Then just copy the PHP file to the var www  directory   Then go to the browser  and write local host test php or whatever the  php filename is

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