Local lamp stack ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu Desktop
#1

Hi,

I used this article to setup a local lamp stack for wordpress and general php development on my pop os desktop.

However, when i try to go and create a laravel project inside /var/www/html i get an error:

command: composer create-project laravel/laravel=“8.4.*” laravel

error: [ErrorException]
mkdir(): Permission denied

Is this because we changed the ownership of this html folder to www-data for user and group?

How can i change this to be better suited for local development?

If I run the above command with sudo then I’ll have to keep developing with sudo.

Any alternatives that are better suited for local development?

Thank you.

#2

You can grant permission to additional users with setfacl.

sudo apt install acl
sudo setfacl -R -m u:your_username:rwx /var/www/html/

www-data is still the owner of this directory.

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#3

Thank you.

I am running into another issue that I am not sure about. I set up the acl as you had suggested.

These are the permissions on my /var/www/html directory:

drw-rwxr–+ 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 30 19:23 html/

And i have two files within this directory:

-rw-r–r--+ 1 www-data www-data 10918 Nov 30 14:41 index.html
-rw-r–r--+ 1 www-data www-data 23 Nov 30 14:51 info.php

But, when I go to the browser and type in either

localhost or localhost/info.php

It gives me this error:

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access this resource.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80

If possible, could you please tell me what I’m doing wrong here.

Thanks.

#4

This has been resolved. I think this was due to my apache configuration. Thank you for the acl guidance that is great. I am able to work on my code without changing ownership.

Best.