paste web application directory in /var/www permission error

Question

I want to copy php web application directory from windows partition

C:/wamp/www/gestion

to Ubuntu partition /var/www, I get this message

the folder "gestion" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to create it in the destination

in the terminal I have executed

sudo chmod -R a+rwx /var/www

but always same error message I have displayed ls-l in var folder I have :

drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 janv. 18 16:18 www

Answer 1

Run

sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/

WARNING!!! This is a security risk. Change it to a more secure permissions structure once you are done.