Hey all,
been playing with xampp on the mac for a few weeks now and thought I'd share 1 big niggly issue which I came up against and how I got around it.
If there is a better solution out there I'd love to know about it!
Most apps I'm deploying in xampp are php/mysql apps which require the ability to write to one or multiple files.
By default when I create or copy a folder into the htdocs folder on the xampp mac folder - permissions are read only. This seems to be related to the user which xampp runs under on the mac.
If I have a folder /htdocs/mywebsite - I right click on mywebsite and select "Get Info"
under "Sharing and Permissions" I then click the padlock and change the permissions of all users to "Read and Write"
Most importantly, I then click the little settings icon next to the +/- icons and select "Apply to enclosed items"
This then obviously acts similar to chmod -R on linux and recursively applies write permissions to all items under "mywebsite"
This is a simple, quick and dirty solution I've found for fixing my permissions issues.
Really interested to know if there is some set protocol for how I should be doing this.
thanks,
Ed