Can't edit files in '/var/www/' - Already followed a lot of tutorials

Question

I'm trying to edit a PHP open source project, and I put it in /var/www to view the updates in real time using localhost. It works, but when I try to update one file of the project in Sublime Text I receive the following error:

Unable to save /var/www/howtoelementaryos/global.php
Error: unable to create tmp file in /var/www/howtoelementaryos

I want know what I can do to solve this problem, because I already followed these tutorials:

And none of these helped me. Summarizing, what I can do to solve this issue?

Edit:

stat /var/www:

  File: `/var/www'
  Size: 4096        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 4202729     Links: 4
Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (   33/www-data)   Gid: (   33/www-data)
Access: 2013-10-28 10:33:02.827949771 -0200
Modify: 2013-10-28 10:14:39.030751552 -0200
Change: 2013-10-28 10:33:02.827949771 -0200
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stat /var/www/howtoelementaryos:

  File: `/var/www/howtoelementaryos'
  Size: 4096        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 4195910     Links: 4
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (   33/www-data)   Gid: (   33/www-data)
Access: 2013-10-28 10:33:35.244209685 -0200
Modify: 2013-10-28 10:09:49.724196121 -0200
Change: 2013-10-28 10:33:02.831949803 -0200
 Birth: -

Could You show an output of `stat /var/www`, please? And `stat /var/www/howtoelementaryos`. — Kamiccolo, Oct 28 '13 at 12:46
So, what are your current groups and what are the permissions of `/var/www` and the subdirectories of it? — feeela, Oct 28 '13 at 12:48
This probably belongs at [Server Fault](http://serverfault.com/) — Boaz, Oct 28 '13 at 12:49
You have an error, when you want to save files with Sublime Text, but you are searching for tutorials and tag this question with `git`. Where does `git` come in in your try to save something with Sublime text? — FlyingFoX, Oct 28 '13 at 13:34
Because this is a project that I cloned with a git. When I posted this question I don't know if the error can be with permissions, git, or both. — Paladini, Oct 28 '13 at 13:42
So what are your permissions in this directory? You can find out with `ls -l` — FlyingFoX, Oct 28 '13 at 13:50
Go to one directory below your project root and do sudo chmod -R 775 proj. Enter your password. — wclark, Oct 28 '13 at 14:02

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 03 '15 at 04:07

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Go to one directory below your project root and do sudo chmod -R 775 proj, where proj is the name of your project root. Enter your password.

edited Jun 03 '15 at 04:07

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answered Oct 28 '13 at 14:03

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Can't edit files in '/var/www/' - Already followed a lot of tutorials

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