title: giving write permission to nginx public folder on ubuntu 16.04
body: <p>Just did a fresh installation of nginx on my local machine.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to give write permission to nginx public folder but I get this error mod: <strong><em>cannot access '/usr/share/nginx/html': No such file or directory</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>the public file path for the nginx server is <strong><em>file:///usr/share/nginx/html</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>Please assist</p>