I was trying to install Joomla on my Macbook Air under XAMPP. I successfully installed it, but when I try to open the front-end, I keep getting this mkdir():permission denied
error.
Two questions raised while I was trying to solve this problem:
-
I noticed when I do
ls -l
, the owner/group of some folders ismyname
:admin
, while those of other folders isroot:admin
. I am the only user of this computer and themyname
user should have all root privileges.What I don't understand:
A. Why when I do
chmod
I had tosudo chmod
.B. Why there are folders with different owner.
-
To solve the problem, I forcefully changed owner/group of all related files and directories to
root:root
and permissions of those to0777
. But eventually I will have to move this over to a production server and it is not wise to keep the owner and permission like this. Is there any better way to solve the problem while keeping the owner/permission settings as tight as possible?
Best Answer
sudo
is needed to change permissions of files and folders that the current user account does not have permissions to modify.In this case, the
chmod myname
requiredsudo
because some of the files and folders being modified were owned byroot
.By default, the first user account is an administrator. This is likely the account you are currently using. Administrator permissions are not equivalent to those of
root
.root
exists above administrator users on OS X.With regard to how best to deploy Joomla on a production server, this is better asked in a separate question.