Chmod /var/www/

[president vankk]

Hello everyone, I'm trying help a friend, and her is getting problem with chmod, I don't know what to do anymore.

I tryed chmod -R 777 /var/www/ (then it download files instead vieweing);
when I try chmod 666 -R /var/www (then it always say (You don't have permission to access / on this server);

Also I tryed anothers chmods and keep getting the same problems above.

Also using lighttpd.

Any idea to how fix it? Thanks.

 

[silveralol]

sudo chmod 777 /var/www/ -R

 

[Nekiro]

or navigate to var folder with

cd /var/

and then type

sudo chmod 777 www

 

[president vankk]

With chmod 777 it keep downloading the index.php.

 

[Techrlz]

With chmod 777 it keep downloading the index.php.

You have php installed in machine?!?

 

[president vankk]

You have php installed in machine?!?

Yes, sudo apt-get install php5-cgi.


Fixed using:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo a2enmod php5
sudo service apache2 restart