How to permanently change the file/directory permission [closed]

Question

How do I change the permission of file/directories such that I am able to create, edit, delete files/directories anywhere in my system? Currently I am using Ubuntu 12.04.

I tried

sudo chmod 777 -r /opt/lampp/htdocs

after installing xampp but it does not even seems to work for the htdocs folder.

Thanks

Answer 1

Setting open permissions like this is usually the wrong thing to do. What leads you to believe it is the solution you want? What are you trying to do, what do you expect to happen, and what actually happens? Do you have Apache configured and running, or do you just want local access to the xampp docs? Whatever the case, it seems as if setting permissions to 777 is a bit of a sledgehammer approach.

Beyond that, your chmod syntax is incorrect:

chmod -R 777 /path

The -R flag goes before the mode specification, not after it. It is also probably a capital R and not a lower case r (but I don't use Linux so don't take my word on that - look at the manpage to get all the gory details).

Answer 2

Read logs /var/log/apache2/ to see why apache was failing to display web pages for you.

On Ubuntu, default apache DocumentRoot directory is /var/www. (I think you can change the DocumentRoot directory by editing a file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default and restarting apache.)

Answer 3

If you want to put files in there, then either change the permissions so that YOU have write access, or use sudo. DO NOT EVER set anything on your system to permissions 777. That is read/write/execute for anyone. Now that may be your private system, but you may one day work on production systems. You don't want to learn bad habits. NEVER use that set of permissions for any file.

Just want you to learn safe habits, not trying to brow beat you.

Answer 4

First try to find the permission that you have for this folder and its subsequent files using this command : ls -lrt

Try to see if there is a sticky bit associated with it. Then change to root using : sudo su. And then give permission as : chmod +rwx filename

That aught to do it .