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I've installed Apache, PHP, etc. on the Pi and left it running headless as I want to build a little website.
However, using WinSCP to move files from my laptop to the Pi I get the error....

Permission denied.
Error code: 3
Error message from server: Permission denied

...as I'm not logged in as root and the location is var/www/html/

What's the best way to handle this?

Dave.

Make sure the pi user is in the www-data group

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately I'm getting the same result.
I used "sudo usermod -g www-data pi" and checked with "groups pi" which showed "pi : www-data" among other things but I still get the permission denied error.

Any more help greatly appreciated.

Dave.

sudo -i
cd /var/www
chown -R www-data.www-data *

Thanks Dougie but still no permission from WinSCP, gonna leave it, not worth the hassle.

Regards.
Dave.

Got it sorted...

sudo usermod -G www-data pi
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo chown -R pi.www-data /var/www/html
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo chmod -R g+w /var/www/html

...thanks all.

Dave.