MacOSx上的XAMPP权限问题

Question

I have an issue with my XAMPP installation on MacOSx Yosemite.

I have looked at a couple of threads, specifically this one XAMPP permissions on Mac OS X?

I have tried the solutions there but i havent gotten any of them to work.

I am running a website on it that reads, and creates files in php. I need to authorize access to the htdocs folder by right clicking it going into info, and them unlocking the padlock. Only then can I write files. This is very annoying, and not ideal for working on the site.

Answer 1

If Xammp use a different user like www-data, you can change owner of the directory in recursive mode with chown.

sudo chown xampp-user /path/to/directory -R

And you may need to change chmod for that directories.

sudo chmod 755 /path/to/directory -R

But when you copy or move a directory from another place to xampp path, you'll need to do these steps again cause owner will be different. And i agree this is not a ideal environment.

Personally it will be easier using vagrant for development. To put it simply, it's a headless virtualbox. This way you won't have a problem about permissions or something like that. If you did not use vagrant before puphpet is a good place to create a local environment.