Adding current logged in user to group www-data sudo usermod -aG www-data $USER Change owner of /var/www/html/project-name sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/project-name/ Set 774 permission sudo chmod -R 774 /var/www/html/project-name/
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