Can't work with XAMPP

[chris90night]

Hi,

I installed the XAMPP-Package in the /opt/ directory. I can start my Webserver etc., so it works! But the problem is that the folder "htdocs" is in the /opt/ directory and so i am not able to create, edit, save files etc. I'm not logged in as root, but even if i make my account a member of the root-group, it doesn't work at all.
Please help!

[daark.child]

Create a new group e.g. www, add yourself to that group and then use chown to recursively change the group ownership of the files in the htdocs to the www group e.g.

groupadd www
gpasswd -a user www
chgrp -R /opt/xampp/htdocs

If you still can't write to that directory, you will need to change the permissions using chmod.

[chris90night]

Ok, that didn't work... But I solved the problem. I logged in as root an changed the owner of the whole lampp-folder. That works!
Anyway, thanks to you!