Hello!: You must think that human users have their userids upper of 1000. www-data user is really the user who admins the website, is the user and group of your webserver , and your web's user or your web's visitors are from group "others". I wish this helps you! <div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/12 thufir <<a href="mailto:hawat.thufir@gmail.com" target="_blank">hawat.thufir@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> My /var/www directory permissions are: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 15:34 www/ While running the install script for FUDForum, I get this message: Directory "/var/www/" exists, but the installation script is unable to write to the directory. Please grant read/write permissions to the web- server user (www-data/www-data) The web-server user is www-data? I tried changing permissions for the / var/www folder to add group permissions with chmod g+w /var/www but was insuficient. thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/passwd | grep www www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh thufir@dur:~$ thufir@dur:~$ cat /etc/group | grep www www-data:x:33: thufir@dur:~$ maybe www-data is in the wrong group? Or, just go ahead and give everyone rw permissions to /var/www ? I'm not well versed in apache. thanks, Thufir -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>