I'm running XAMPP on Mac OS X 10.6.8, and in the httpd.conf file for this Apache it says:

User nobody
Group nogroup

Now when I create new folders and files in my /htdocs directory, Apache is complaining that it doesn't have re/write permissions. I can fix this by changing the permissions on /htdocs to "Everyone: read/write" but that seems like overkill.

How can I set my permissions (group?) on my /htdocs, so that new folders created (by Apache, or by me in the Finder) will be totally available to Apache?

FWIW I see in the terminal that when PHP creates new files, they're showing up as nobody/admin for user/group.

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