Question

I installed XAMPP 1.7.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 without changing any defaults.

The webserver seems to work okay, but the permissions on the htdocs directory are set to “Read only” for everyone other than system. So (a) I have to provide root password every time I copy in web content, and, more problematic, (b) NetBeans says it can’t create a target directory, and doesn’t even generate the index.php file in the source directory.

Do I just need to manually change permissions on the htdocs directory, or is there some more global XAMPP setting that should be changed? Running NetBeans as root seems a bit extreme.

Answer 1

Tried the above but the option to amend the permission was not available for the htdocs folder,

My solution was:

1. Open applications folder
2. Locate XAMPP folder
3. Right click, get info (as described above)
4. In pop-up window locate the ‘sharing & permission’ section
5. Click the ‘locked’ padlock symbol
6. Enter admin password
7. Change ‘Everyone’ permissions to read & write
8. In the get info window still, select the ‘cog’ icon’ drop down option at the very bottom and select ‘Apply to enclosed items’ this will adjust the permission across all sub-folders as well.
9. Re-lock the padlock symbol
10. Close the ‘Get Info’ window.

Task complete, this will now allow you to populate sub-folders within the htdocs folder as needed to populate your website(s).