Dear Praveen 1. Please check that whether owner of /var/www has changed or not using "ls -l /var |grep www" 2. If the owner is still root then use "sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www" and enter your account password to authenticate or simply run command being logged in as root 3. Now if you wanna create a folder or file then you must add www-data to your group using "sudo addgroup <username> www-data" and change group permission to write using "sudo chmod g+rw /var/www" I think now you can create a folder or file with ease. (Note, there are multiple way to do this like you can chmod to 777 simply without going all above procedure but I wont prefer to give global write permissions.)- Regards Robin Ladwal ----Original Message----- From: praveen s <praveen9482@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-to: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: kanchilug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [kanchilug] help Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:25:25 +0530 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...