Capistrano mkdir permission denied

Question

When I run cap production deploy I get cannot create directory ‘/var/www/application/repo’: Permission denied.

So far I\'ve created deploy user

Answer 1

Credit to Bob Roberts.

I think this should be an answer as its easy to miss your comment. I know I missed it few times.

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

or whatever your username is

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