Comments on: Setting up a VirtualBox LAMP Server

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:39:00 +0000

You’re welcome, I’m glad you found it useful!

By: Aqib Mushtaq

Aqib Mushtaq — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:12:00 +0000

Been trying to get this to work for a very long time with complicated procedures, but this is actually quite a simple task illustrated very well and clearly. Thanks

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:15:00 +0000

I’m glad you were able to find a solution to your problem. It appears I may have left out the sudo command. As I use Linux daily, it’s probably automatic for me. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Rdephillip

Rdephillip — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:19:00 +0000

Ok a brief update that experimenting was able to resolve the chown and chmod bit.

sudo chown -R /var/www so you can change ownership
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www so you can change permissions

this has allowed it… I’m thinking that on 10.10 ubuntu it isn’t needed to DisplayDotFiles as it appears to be done already.

I do have to thank you for the guide as it was helpful… the need for sudo could be version dependant and I don’t want to discredit you for your knowledge.

By: Rdephillip

Rdephillip — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:14:00 +0000

As much as I hate being one of those guys I just want to point a few things out for you that are… flawed. Once you get into your setup for Pure-FTPD it is full of permissions problems (from a default LAMP Ubuntu install).

echo yes > DisplayDotFiles
Returns:
-bash: DisplayDotFiles: Permission denied

The restart works as does the symbolic link.

chown -R /var/www

Returns:
chown: missing operand after ‘/var/www’

and obviously gives permission faults because the chown failed!

I’m going to dig around for these solutions, but I just thought you would like to know that your guide might have worked for you but seems like you accidentally left out a lot of things.