[deepbluegene]

hi

i was doing web programming on windows but recently i installed ubuntu and xampp. there are two directories one is /opt/lampp/htdocs and other is /myname/public_html. which one is my home directory. i tried to save a file in my home directory i.e /myname/public_html but it is not working.

now when i try to edit files in /opt/lampp/htdocs/ it gives me error message that file can not be written.

how i can link my public_html folder that when i type localhost in browser it serve my pages.

please help
thanx

[capty99]

wrong forum

[deepbluegene]

capty99, on 13 Mar, 2007 - 08:23 PM, said:

wrong forum

sorry.
can you please guide me to the right forum?

thanx

[Nova Dragoon]

You cant write to /opt/lampp/htdocs most likely because of permission problems, being it is owned by root or http user and you are not that user.

Here is some basic info on file permissions:
http://www.december....ermissions.html

You'll probably need to as root, change ownership of some directory.

[deepbluegene]

thanx for the link.

i changed ownership and now able to write to it.

u saved my day.

thanx