# FTP Access to /var/www/

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ftp-access-to-var-www/152136>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 21, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ftp-access-to-var-www/152136 "2005-06-21T17:11:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yeldarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yeldarb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yeldarb)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ftp-access-to-var-www/152136/1 "2005-06-21T17:11:56Z")

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I’m trying to set up an ftp server, but I’m having a bit of a problem. What I want to be able to do is only have one account (mine) so that I can edit files when I’m on the road. It’s a personal server, so security is of little concern. I just want to be able to log in and upload/edit/delete files from /var/www (Apache’s root directory, where my external HDD on windows is smbmnt’ed to)

The problems I’m having are that:  
/var/www/ is owned by root and I can’t change the permissions on it apparently…  
and  
I can’t figure out how to get any ftp server to allow access to /var/www/ and _only_ /var/www/ (plus giving it read/write access)

Thanks.  
Btw, I’m running Kubuntu.