[wellylug] Setting up a simple web server

[John Durham]

This should be easy enough for you experienced types.

I'm trying to set up a simple web server on Ubuntu, and I'm the only
user. Root access is available, and I have created a folder at:
root at ubuntu:/home/httpd/html
Using gedit, I created a simple html page as a place marker to
experiment with. The problem is, the system is rejecting my efforts to
change the folder permissions so files can be saved there!
>From the httpd directory I tried:
chmod 755 html
There were no complaints from the system, yet when I try to add the
files in the html folder, it complains I don't have permission to do
that.

Appaently the chmod was not effective. Can you make any helpful
suggestions please? I'm sill learning.