title: XAMPP permissions on Mac OS X?
body: <p>I installed XAMPP 1.7.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 without changing any defaults.  </p>
  
  <p>The webserver seems to work okay, but the permissions on the htdocs directory are set to "Read only" for everyone other than system.  So (a) I have to provide root password every time I copy in web content, and, more problematic, (b) NetBeans says it can't create a target directory, and doesn't even generate the <code>index.php</code> file in the source directory.</p>
  
  <p>Do I just need to manually change permissions on the <code>htdocs</code> directory, or is there some more global XAMPP setting that should be changed?  Running NetBeans as root seems a bit extreme.</p>