permission denied when renaming file in linux at /var/www/html
<p>I am very new to linux and am using putty and pscp to move files to a live hosted directory. I would like to rename my recently uploaded dist folder to its actual project name using mv but get a permission denied error. What is the safest and most reasonable way to arrange these files so I can rename them?</p>

<pre><code>lawton@lawtonb:/var/www/html$ ls -la
total 268
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root     4096 Aug 30 16:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root   root     4096 Aug 18 23:05 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lawton lawton 253276 Aug 27 18:06 bundle.js
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Aug 30 16:42 dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root   root       17 Aug 18 23:24 info.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root     4096 Aug 27 18:59 react-youtube

lawton@lawtonb:/var/www/html$ mv dist BTC_Sorter
mv: cannot move 'dist' to 'BTC_Sorter': Permission denied
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