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I am using XAMPP and apache as webserver. I have permission problems with a website of mine that requires write access to a temporary folder in the project folder /htdocs/myProject/tmp

It think my problem is that my site runs on my localhost and I copied the project with my regular desktop user into the htdocs folder. Apache seems to lack write permissions.

My question is now: How do I found out which user group apache belongs to in order to make that group owner of the folder? That should fix my permission problem, shouldn't?

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As far as I understand, the Apache (Webserver) has an own user called "www-data". Maybe an already answered question on SO has a solution, which you can use.

  • The used command relies on a linux-based system and that you navigated in a terminal to a directory, where /htdocs is located.

  • This command in the answer of the link below allows you as a humanoid user to write and work in this specified directory.

  • You add www-data (Apache) to use this directory, too.

  • New files of that chown'ed directory will 'inherit' the owners.

The Link and further descriptions can be found here on Stackoverflow.com: www-data permissions

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