XAMPP permissions on Mac OS X?

Solution 1:

Tried the above but the option to amend the permission was not available for the htdocs folder,

My solution was:

1. Open applications folder
2. Locate XAMPP folder
3. Right click, get info (as described above)
4. In pop-up window locate the 'sharing & permission' section
5. Click the 'locked' padlock symbol
6. Enter admin password
7. Change 'Everyone' permissions to read & write
8. In the get info window still, select the 'cog' icon' drop down option at the very bottom and select 'Apply to enclosed items' this will adjust the permission across all sub-folders as well.
9. Re-lock the padlock symbol
10. Close the 'Get Info' window.

Task complete, this will now allow you to populate sub-folders within the htdocs folder as needed to populate your website(s).

Solution 2:

Make sure the XAMPP app is running then:

1. Under General Tab, in XAMPP app, click Open Terminal
2. A terminal will be launched with something like, root@debian:~#, on the terminal shell
3. on that terminal shell, type, chmod -R 0777 /opt/lampp/htdocs/ and enter
4. Exit, the terminal and you be good to go

Solution 3:

For latest OSX versions,

1. Right click on the folder
2. Select Get Info
3. Expand the Sharing & Permission section
4. Unlock the folder by clicking lock icon on bottom right-corner
5. Now, select the user list and enable Read & Write privilege for the users
6. Click on the + icon to add username

7. Finally click settings icon and select Apply to enclosed items...

   

Solution 4:

For new XAMPP-VM for Mac OS X,
I change the ownership to daemon user and solve the problem.

For example,

$ chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/lampp/htdocs/hello-laravel/storage