Permissions Xampp

Gents, I have a lot of problems getting Xampp to work. I installed Xampp with this tutorial. After that I set the permissions following this tutorial.

Here is what I did:

1- download xampp-linux-x64-7.4.2-0-installer.run

chmod 755 xampp-linux-x64-7.4.2-0-installer.run

2- install the package

sudo ./xampp-linux-x64-7.4.2-0-installer.run

3- Run the graphical manager

4- Find the owner and the group

ls -ld /opt/lampp/htdocs 

whoami

id -gn

Change ownership to myself

sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/lampp/htdocs

sudo chown -R jos:jos /opt/lampp/htdocs

This is as far as I got. All according to the tutorials, but now the problems begin.

When I want to install Joomla or WordPress this is not enough. The privileges 755 won't allow me to install either. I have to set them to 777. Even so, I have to manually remove the installation folder, and create the configuration file. In WP I have to change the wp-config.php to remove the ftp credentials pop up.

All this is a privileges issue. When I upload an Akeeba .jpa backup all files and folders are locked, and owned by daemon. When I install something it will be owned by the user daemon and group daemon.

httpd.conf in /opt/lampp/etc tells me the User and Group are daemon

User daemon
Group daemon

I stopped the server, changed that to jos and jos, and restarted. Now phpmyadmin throws an error. (So I changed it back to daemon daemon to get it working again.)

How do I solve this problem?

Continuing my quest, I know that the daemon controls a lot. I can't change it, but what I can do is add user jos to the group daemon and vice versa. That works. now I can install software and work with phpmyadmin.

I still have to chmod -R 777 on the folder everytime I install software.

Solution 1:

sudo chown -R daemon wordpress-folder

// or use htdocs folder

the xampp apache server uses a user named daemon to access the folders inside htdocs, this will fix all the permission problems.