Ubuntu – CHMOD folder permissions to access by http

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I have this ubuntu web server and I want to give permissions to access only by http but I don't want the folder to be visible to the network users.
I have a subfolder were users upload some files and I want to hide that too.
Can I do it with CHMOD? How?

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By default, Apache on Ubuntu runs as www-data.

Let's assume your folder is located in /var/www/mysite.

You can do this:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mysite
chmod -R og-r /var/www/mysite

After doing this, www-data (the Web server) will have full access to the site's files, while other non-root users will have no access at all.

If you wish to allow select users to access the site, you can make the folder group-readable and add those users to the group www-data.

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I am working on a related issue, but in your case, you could just add yourself to the web group

sudo adduser $USER www-data

replace USER$ with your username of course. www-data is the group used for apache web access.

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This is bad practice, but hopefully you are just using this for development, or you have another good reason. You can specify the permissions when you create a directory using the -m option:

mkdir -m 777 dirname

Or you can set the permissions recursively.

sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www

Before using either of these, really consider if you want your filesystem to be so accessible.

Edit: As mentioned by Rinzwind here is a better way of accomplishing what you want.

Check what group owns your /var/www directory and add your user to that group.

sudo adduser yourusername group

The group is probably www-data.

Then you will be OK with setting your permissions to 775.

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