Setting up Apache (was: Re: Still have MySQL problems that need to get solved soon)

[Jeff Singleton]

If you have a second partition formatted with HFS, there is an option
on the "Get Info" options to "ignore ownership on this volume".
Outside of that ... if you are hosting Joomla from your home folder
under Sites, and you get the "cannot write" error during the install
process, then you have other problems.

If you are running Apache from /opt/local then you have to use sudo or
be root to make edits.   Chmod`ing folders 777 outside of your Home
Folder is really not the smartest thing to do.

I literally installed Mysql, Php, Apache2 this morning, and had zero
problems.  I can put any number of web apps in any folder I want, and
using a properly configure Apache2 configuration, point Aliases to
those folders and load up the apps without problem.

How much BSD experience do you have anyway?

Have you tried the actual MAMP package, not provided by
MacPorts...http://www.mamp.info/en/index.html...Using the personal
webserver version should be easy as pie to configure.

--
Jeff

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ali A Samii <samii at me.com> wrote:
>
> On 29 Jul, 2010, at 21:27 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> Personally, on my development machine, I like serving most of my stuff out
> of my Sites directory in my home folder. It's all owned by me, I don't have
> to go digging through system directories to find it. But it's up to you how
> you want to set up your server.
>
>
> My problem was that even in my Sites directory, I was having that problem
> using MacPorts MAMP, so nothing changed that way...Is there someway to make
> the Mac side of the system ignore permissions and let the BSD side determine
> the permissions based on parent directory?
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