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How do I administer /var/www?

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Mar 15, 20261987 views
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Problem

I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to setup a small testing server inside of a VM running Ubuntu Server. I've found the /var/www folder and it should be the one where my Apache documents are stored, in fact if I access my VM's IP I see the index.html page that's stored there. My problem is that I can'…

Error Output

d-w-r-xr-x 2  root root 4096 2011-12-28 16:08 ./ 
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2011-12-28 17:02 ../ 
-rw-r--r-- 1  root root 177  2011-12-28 16:08 in…

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That is a protected folder. You need to be root in order to modify this directory. You can also make gab the owner of this directory by doing will execute the command as a root (administrator) and prompt you for your password used when setting up th…

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