user && group settings www folder MacPorts WAMP

[Jasper Frumau]

Thanks a lot Banana!

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Banana <mail at bananas-playground.net>wrote:

> On 27.10.11 08:43, Jasper Frumau wrote:
>
>> The best way to "solve" those issues, would be to leave the rights as
>> they are but add the write permission to the group.
>>
>> Well, a bit too late for me I'm afraid. I tried chown - R jasper:admin
>> and chown -R _www:admin and now most if not all sites in /opt/loca/www
>> do not load anymore. Any ideas how I can fix this and have WordPress,
>> osDate, Joomla! and so on running on my localhost again?
>>
>>
> You need to make sure that the owner of the webserver process has rights to
> write data into the webroot.
>
> Check the User and Group setting in /opt/loca/apache/conf/httpd.**conf
> If an application writes data eg. in its temp folder, it tries to do this
> with the user/group as defined in /opt/loca/apache/conf/httpd.**conf.
>
>
> If you only develop local and not with multiple users or not serve the
> content to the internet, then you can try this:
>
> Change the User/group setting to your login user/group in
> /opt/loca/apache/conf/httpd.**conf and restart the webserver. Then chown
> the files in your webroot to your user/group.
>
> Since you are the only one who changes the files there should be no
> confilict anymore, since the webserverprocess runs as the same user as you.
>
> ~Banana
>
>
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