How to use Nano on Unix-like systems

Nano is a basic text only text editor in Unix. It has no real GUI as such, and there is very little mouse interaction. But this makes it very useful, especially when SSHing to your web server. Here are some basic commands for you. Opening Nano to edit a file is as simple as Nano [...]

Accessing /var/www/ as normal user

Some useful linux commands to help with editing web pages on a server: To give access to others to my www folder (so I don’t have to login as sudo): chmod 2775 . -R To show the groups for the selected user: groups <username> groups www-data To add the www-data user to the local user’s [...]