Not allowed to copy files to /opt/lampp/htdocs

[raydrezack]

Hello, I've recently installed Mandriva on one of my machines and am now trying to get Xampp to work. It installed fine but I cannot seem to copy any files into the htdocs folder. I'm not quite sure what's wrong but I hope someone here can help me.

P.s. Sorry If I've posted this in the wrong section, It's 1 am.

[daark.child]

You should be able to do this as root or another option would be to create a new group e.g. web, change ownership of the /opt/lampp/htdocs to the group web and then put yourself into the web group e.g.

#groupadd web
#chgrp -R web /opt/lampp/htdocs
#gpasswd -a username web

The # in the commands above should not be typed it. It just shows that you need to be root.

[raydrezack]

Thanks for your response however, that didn't quite help although, it did lead me to finding about the chmod command which indeed helped me.

[daark.child]

I'm glad you got it working. I however don't see why that would not help.