The www folder is created by most distributions during the apache setup process. As the setup process is run by root, the www folder is owned by root. Use ls -al
in /var
to look at it's permissions.
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 May 2 11:34 www
chmod
and chown
are GNU coreutils that you can use to modify the permissions of unix directories.
Use chown
to change the owner and group of /var/www/html/
to your user and group, e.g.
sudo chown -R jason:jason /var/www/html/
As you're likely to start putting PHP scripts in here, you'll then need to use chmod
to make sure the apache user (in most cases www-data
) is allowed to execute them.
Try and understand how Unix permissions work before proceeding any further as it will save you some time down the line. Good luck.