Linux Unable to Write to Directory Despite Permissions

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Published on 2011-03-15T19:06:45Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 5:31 UTC
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I'm trying to give myself permissions to /var/www/ however for some reason I am unable to do so. Currently what I'm facing is this:

nick@server1:/var$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x  5 root wwwusers  232 Mar 15 19:31 www
nick@server1:/var$ groups
nick wwwusers
nick@server1:/var$ mkdir www/trying
mkdir: cannot create directory `www/trying': Permission denied

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a VPS and am used to running unix on my own machine so I may be doing something absolutely stupid, but I would like to be able to have the group wwwusers be able to write to www.

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