You ever run into that issue where you can't copy or FTP files up to your directory under /var/www/ for your new website?

 

If you make /var/www writeable by its group and add the user to the group, that user will not have to use sudo. Try this:

sudo usermod -a -G www-data [username]
sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/www¨

The user should then be able to edit /var/www/ files without hassle.

The first line adds the user to the www-data group, the second line clears up any files with messed up ownership, and the third makes it so that all users who are members of the www-data group can read and write all files in /var/www.

 

This usually corrects issues of Apache DNS errors is giving the appropriate rights.

I'm having issues when updating my site with new files and its obvious its a permissions issue. When I try and run the above command I get the following error message.

username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

Any idea's?