Hello!
I’m currently using MAMP Pro for local development and have future plans to host my site on the same computer. I followed the article that was mentioned in the wiki about partitioning my HD to /Volumes/www/mysite.com
So my question is what are some best practices for setting up permissions on my local development machine that will soon host my site on the internet.
Certain folders on my site need to be writable by the server and the only way I know how to do this is by changing my permissions for “everyone” to “read & write”. This must be a huge security issue right? Is there away that I can make my apache server a user or group and then just give it write permissions? For example, the folder /Volumes/www/mysite.com/plugins , I clicked on “get info” and then clicked on the plus icon under sharing & permissions and added the user “apache” ... and now I’m lost on what to do.
I would appreciate any help. As you can see I’m very much a newbie. Hopefully the responses on this topic can help someone else as well. Can you please be very detailed when you are explaining the solution. Thanks in advance