Developing with apache

dev_apache

If your server documents are in /home/$USER/public_html directory you need to run

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/$USER/public_html

to give ownership of the DocumentRoot folder to the user www-data and group www-data.

Then you can add yourself to the group www-data

sudo adduser $USER www-data

Finally, you need to make the DocumentRoot folder writable by owner (www-data user) and to your self (as part of the www-data group):

sudo chmod -R 775 /home/$USER/public_html