Permissions on /vagrant directory

Question

I have a vagrant instance setup e.g

~/Vagrants/devmachine

which has my webapp source code setup like

~/Vagrants/devmachine/htdocs/myapp

which is mapped to /var/www on instance/guest machine (symilink)

ls -al /var/www
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Apr  4 10:16 /var/www -> /vagrant/htdocs/myapp/

The issue is that I am unable to change own of the /var/www files e.g

ls -al /var/www/
total 80
drwxrwxrwx 1 vagrant vagrant   782 Mar 20 06:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 vagrant vagrant   102 Apr  4 07:06 ..

What I am try to is change:

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

Command is executed without error but file user/group for /var/www does not change

The reason to keep files in this way is so I can edit files easily by IDE.

Edit

I added this to Vagrantfile, but still apache2 is unable to write to files

config.vm.share_folder("v-root", "/vagrant", ".", :owner => "vagrant", :group => "www-data") 

Answer 1

To do this sort of thing I add a second shared folder like so in my VagrantFile: config.vm.synced_folder "../project_folder", "/var/www/", owner: "apache", group: "apache"

so that I can explicitly set the permissions of that folder without effecting the default vagrant setup.