Serving from FAT32 USB memory stick under Linux

[geojay]

I'm running XAMPP under Linux and my development site lives on a USB memory stick (FAT32 format, so it can be used on Windows machines too). Apache doesn't seem to be able to access the site to serve it. I think it issue is with permissions on a FAT32 formatted device. It seems that things can only be read and written by the user, I can't chmod items on the stick to be accessible by anyone else.

Can anyone confirm that this is related to the FAT32 formatting of the device? If so, what can I do about this?

Many thanks,
Geoff