using chown in linux

Question

I want to assign www-data user full rights in folder /var/www/ and all of the files inside this folder.

I have tried chown www-data /var/www/

Note that you'll have to run chown as root, e.g. sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/.

Bill the Lizard · Answer 1 · 2011-04-24 23:09:36Z

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You need to do chown -R www-data /var/www/ (-R means recursive).

edited Apr 24 '11 at 23:09

Bill the Lizard
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answered Apr 24 '11 at 16:06

levu
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Ernest Friedman-Hill · Answer 2 · 2011-04-24 16:06:58Z

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Use the "-R" switch to recursively change everything in a directory

chown -R www-data /var/www/

answered Apr 24 '11 at 16:06

Ernest Friedman-Hill
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migrated from stackoverflow.com Apr 24 '11 at 17:24