help extracting the toast zip file - file permission problem

Question

Hi - bit of a newbie question here!

I can't extract the zip into my /var/www/toast folder. I created the folder as user "root". Folder permissions are:

21628095 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun 27 11:09 toast

Using the GUI Ubuntu (13.04) extract tool, it complains that as user "graeme" I don't have permission to write the file to the folder.

Can I chmod the Toast folder 777 and then revert to 644 once extracted?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

ok, well I kind of answered my own stupidity here. Sorry, if it helps anyone else, I'll write up my progress here.

step one (on Ubuntu 13.04)
cd /var/www
sudo mkdir toast

step two
run the Gnome Archive manager
Extract the seotoaster.v2.1.0.ecommerce.v2.1.0.zip file to the "toast" folder.

Done!

Open Chrome or FF (I don't use IE and have lived happily since swithcing to Ubuntu solely as my desktop OS 11 years back - no virii, no BSODs...)

go to localhost/toast

et Voila!
merci!
Gracias
err, thanks.

Now I just have to figure out out to undo the file permission mess I made as I know It is mad to leave toast as a 777 permission.

G

Comments

sudo chmod -R 777

this will make the folder "toast" and all of it's subfolders writeable.