How to give apache permission to write to home directory?

Question

My server is in /var/www/html I have a php script in /var/www/html/fileio_test/io_test.php

Answer 1

By default, Apache on Ubuntu runs as www-data.

Let's assume your folder is located in /var/www/mysite.

You can do this:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mysite

chmod -R og-r

/var/www/mysite After doing this, www-data (the Web server) will have full access to the site's files, while other non-root users will have no access at all.

If you wish to allow select users to access the site, you can make the folder group-readable and add those users to the group www-data.

Set correct permissions on your apache files