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My head is a bit mashed over this.

I have moved from MAMP to using Mac's own AMP stack, and have got it working, but just CANNOT get the directory permissions right.

My localhost points to ~/Sites and my username appears to be user (in that in the terminal is shows up as user at MacBookPro in ~ $). I also seem to have a group called staff.

I have checked that the user group is set in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf (about line 120) as User _www Group _www

The Problem:

Whenever I try and access a URL like localhost/_Projects/fresh2/public/index.php I get a 403 Forbidden error. (This would be the path to my Laravel project).

It looks like I have the opposite of what I want set up, as I can easily see into the localhost/_Projects/fresh2/app/config/ directory and see all these files as a directory listing in my browser, but the one folder that I would expect to see (`public') isn't there (I'm guessing this is down to the permissions).

NOTE: When I run a 'server' via Command line php artisan serve within this Laravel project then I can run the project's index.php and it works at I would expect the app to work, with no permission issues. (But I also use this folder to house other PHP apps (like Codeigniter) so I need to access it via a URL)

Folder Permissions

I have run ls -l within the root of this project folder and this is what I see:

drwxr-xr-x+ 16 user  _www    544 24 Jan 13:19 .
drwxr-x---+  5 user  _www    170 24 Jan 18:50 ..
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www     11 19 Jan 02:14 .gitattributes
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www    103 19 Jan 02:14 .gitignore
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www    145 19 Jan 02:14 CONTRIBUTING.md
drwxr-xr-x+ 14 user  _www    476 19 Jan 02:14 app
-rwxr-xr-x+  1 user  _www   2451 19 Jan 02:14 artisan
drwxr-xr-x+  5 user  _www    170 19 Jan 02:14 bootstrap
drwxr-xr-x+  7 user  _www    238 24 Jan 13:19 components
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www    787 24 Jan 13:19 composer.json
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www  64982 24 Jan 13:20 composer.lock
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www    566 19 Jan 02:14 phpunit.xml
drwxr-xr-x+  7 user  _www    238 19 Jan 02:14 public
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www   1795 19 Jan 02:14 readme.md
-rw-r--r--+  1 user  _www    519 19 Jan 02:14 server.php
drwxr-xr-x+ 27 user  _www    918 24 Jan 13:20 vendor

What might I be doing wrong? What other info can I provide?

al_manchester
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  • I have given up and just used the standard webroot (/Library/WebServer/Documents/_Projects). It all seems to be working fine there. – al_manchester Jan 24 '14 at 23:51

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Give ownership to apache user for all files. Here the apache user is _www and try. Use chown for changing ownership. The command will look like something below.

chown _www:_www -R fldername. Here the folder might be the DocumentRoot of your project.

Uvais Ibrahim
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