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www-data permissions?

So I have a directory in /var/www (called cake) and I need to allow www-data to write to it, but I also want to write to it (without having to use sudo). I'm afraid to change the permissions to 777 in case some other user on my machine (or a hacker) attempts to modify files in that directory. How do I only allow access for myself and Apache's www-data?

Solution 
  • sudo chown -R yourname:www-data cake

    then

    sudo chmod -R g+s cake

    First command changes owner and group.

    Second command adds s attribute which will keep new files and directories within cake having the same group permissions.