Permissions Issues on Development Server

When making some changes to my environment I ran into permissions issues.

The fix for some stuff was to add my user to the www-data group and re permission the folders hosting the websites.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/flexpaul_net/

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/flexpaul_net/

And finally

sudo usermod -aG www-data (USERNAME)

Notes:
-aG adds the user to the group without removing them from others.
After we do this you will need to log out and back on for changes to take effect.

At the very end, that didn’t seem to do much help and I trouble shot until this worked.

sudo find /var/www/flexpaul_net/cms_/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

sudo find /var/www/flexpaul_net/cms_/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Reopened VScode and again could write.