As the folder is owned by www-data user and group, normal user cant write there. You can Add yourself in the group www-data Or Create files as sudo user Or Give 777 permission to the folder /var/www But this should not be done in production server. On 6/20/11, praveen s <praveen9482@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi hello... > I'd like to learn php... > So i input create a permission for create a file in the /var/www folder... > I give the following command > > "chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www" > > After this input i did't create a folder or file in the folder... So please > help me anyone... > Thanks... > -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge