MAMP Gurus: setting correct permissions?
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- Brent Critchfield
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Hoping that someone can give me some input on this non-RT problem. I'm developing a new site in MAMP (usually do my development on the live server but this is a custom template so it made more sense). Having trouble getting permissions set correctly. When user is set to myself Joomla can't install extensions, edit config, etc. When set to _www I can't edit or save files myself (css, template overrides, etc.)
What's the correct setup here? Running MAMP PRO on OSX 10.8.4.
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- prim
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I only installed MAMP, set the server to fastcgi and created my login.
Then i set the correct permissions via my FTP client:
755 (folders)
644 (files) - Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it
- DanG
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- Brent Critchfield
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Yes, permissions are correct - it seems to be an ownership issue. On the General tab of MAMP PRO, if I set "Run Apache/MySQL server as user" www/mysql, Joomla can write files, but I can't edit CSS/LESS/PHP files in my text editor.
If I set it to user/user (with my computer username), I can edit the files, but Joomla shows all directories as unwritable.
I'll have to set up another site from scratch and see if I can make it work. Also, have you had any luck with getting sites to operate outside of the MAMP/htdocs directory? I'd like to keep sites in the directory that I have set up for each of my client's documents, but MAMP doesn't seem to want to run it anywhere else, even though according to the documentation it should be able to.
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