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anjanesh
Asked: 2012-01-13 21:04:36 +0800 CST

OSX equivalent to sudo chgrp -R www-data <directory>

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I normally do 

sudo chgrp -R www-data <directory>

on Ubuntu to set a folder writable by the Apache process. What's the Mac OS X equivalent for www-data?

mac-osx chgrp

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  1. Best Answer

    On Ubuntu you use "www-data" because that is the user the Apache process runs as. You can identify the user Apache will use by checking the config file. On my Mac, it looks like this:

    $ cat /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
[...]
User _www
Group _www
[...]

    So one way to make your files writable would be to chgrp them to _www.

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