www-data permissions?

Question

So I have a directory in /var/www (called cake) and I need to allow www-data to write to it, but I also want to write to it (without having to use sudo). I\'m afraid to chan

Answer 1

sudo chown -R yourname:www-data cake

then

sudo chmod -R g+s cake

First command changes owner and group.

Second command adds s attribute which will keep new files and directories within cake having the same group permissions.