Having trouble writing to a file with PHP on Ubuntu

Question

I am running PHP 5.5.9 on Ubuntu 14.04. I\'m having trouble writing to a file. I feel like this has to be a file permissions problem because I\'m pretty sure the code is cor

Answer 1

After some more research, I've got it figured out. Here is the solution for anyone having the same problem:

Since localhost belongs to the www-data group, I just added my user to that group.

sudo usermod -a -G www-data my_username

Then, I added the folder to the group.

sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www

Then, I gave write permissions to the www-data group.

sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www

This worked for me without any other issue. Thanks!