Creating a shortcut with root permissions in Gnome/Ubuntu

rhawkes · 04-21-2007, 04:22 AM

Hi

I want to create a launcher icon on my desktop in Ubuntu to open a folder (/var/www) so that I can read and write php files in there.

Although I have a shortcut, it is only read only access.

How can I change this so that I have full access, and then so I also have full access when I open a file thereafter in that folder (such as /var/www/index.php) - the files are opening in a text editor which is fine.

Thanks!

the_ajp · 04-21-2007, 05:22 AM

You don't want to go editing your web files as root that could potentially make apache very unhappy

You should make your current user be a member of the same group as apache is and make sure the permissions are right for that kind of setup.

good luck!

rhawkes · 04-22-2007, 04:04 AM

Thanks - I found out how and altered the permissions through Terminal (giving me permissions), and checked and all is working through Apache.