I've installed NodeJS for all users on my Mac and when I do a whoami
in the terminal it says 'cameron' and I can access node, npm, and grunt globally.
However when I try and run these from PHP e.g. exec('npm install');
I can't run them because they don't exist! Doing a whoami in the PHP reveals that I'm running the website as _www
which isn't an actual user on the Mac…
So basically how can I install Node for _www? So I can run these commands from PHP.
Best Answer
This fixes it (after changing apache to run as the user who has node or by giving access to _www).