title: Write Privileges - localhost - Mac OSX
body: <p>I'm new to the mac world and have just been setting up my webserver. I used the following guide: <a href="https://alan.ivey.dev/posts/2011/os-x-10.7-lion-development-native-mamp-with-mysql-installer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://alan.ivey.dev/posts/2011/os-x-10.7-lion-development-native-mamp-with-mysql-installer/</a></p>
  
  <p>I've transferred my sites and databases and everything is going pretty well. The only problem I have is with the writing permissions. For example there is a config file that needs to be written to, and I had to right click, go to Get Info then enable read &amp; write for staff and everyone. </p>
  
  <p>I can't manually go through and enable these write privileges for every file/folder. I didn't need to do this using WAMP and made development much quicker.</p>
  
  <p>So wondering about 2 possible solutions: 
  a) add my user account to a whitelist for the localhost so that 644 privileges are sufficient
  b) set the write privileges recursively</p>