PHP Codeigniter error failed to open stream: Permission denied

Question

I have been working on a project that uses codeigninter. I worked on it in Windows 7 and it was fine but after I moved this project on Ubuntu to work on it there, It gives me this error in every page/controller/method that I try to access:

Warning: require_once(/opt/lampp/htdocs/TS_Project/system/core/CodeIgniter.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /opt/lampp/htdocs/TS_Project/index.php on line 202

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/opt/lampp/htdocs/TS_Project/system/core/CodeIgniter.php' (include_path='.:/opt/lampp/lib/php') in /opt/lampp/htdocs/TS_Project/index.php on line 202

The CodeIgniter.php file does exist, the path to it is correct and I am able to read and write in it ( I can open it in a text editor and modify it freely). I tried changing the file permission to it using the chmod command but nothing happens. Why is permission denied to the CodeIgniter.php file?

Answer 1

You need to change the permission of your TS_Project folder to 755.

You can do that by:

sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/lampp/htdocs/TS_Project