linux（ubuntu）apache www文件夹访问问题

Question

I'm a newbie in Linux, just installed ubuntu 14.04 and wanted to install WAMP (MAMP), I followed a youtube tutorial to install php5, apache2, mysql and phpmyadmin. Installed successfully both http://localhost and http://localhost/phpmyadmin works fine logged in successfully.

now I wanted to add some files and folders to apache www folder which is located at /var/www but cant create files or folders. I'm a Windows user where I usually keep all my PHP work in www folder.

I would like to know if there is a way to use any-other folder as www folder or how to create folders and files in that www folder. I reckon its permission issues, since being a newbie don't know how to fix that.. please help

Regards

Answer 1

Ubuntu 14.04 runs apache as user www-data, you can change to this user using the command in terminal (shell)

sudo su 

This will make you root and have access to /var/www directory, and you will be able to create files and directories. Say you had a directory of images containing img1.jpg, img2.jpg, etc. in say /home/user1/images

as root you could

sudo su                      <- change to the document folder
cd /var/www                  <- change to the document folder
cp /home/user1/images/ .     <- copy what you need to copy
chown -r www-data images/    <- give the web server read/write permission to the folder / files

which will let you do access the images via a browser via the url

http://localhost/images/img1.jpg