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Give www folder to group permissions.
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Add your Node user. If Apache or something else this could be www-data.

sudo adduser nodejs

Add users to that group to allow access to the www directory.

sudo usermod -aG nodejs <username>

Change the group of www folder.

sudo chgrp -R nodejs /var/www

Give the group read/write access.

sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www

Force new files and directories to use the same permissions.

find /var/www -type d -print0 | sudo xargs -0 chmod g+s
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