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I copied over a php folder from computer to another and hooked it up to apache.. however apache would return page forbidden.. after doing some research it turned out it was a matter of giving apache access to the folder.. so this is what i did:

sudo chown -R _www /website/directory

however after doing that, running my git alias commands such as git la returns this error:

fatal: unable to access '.git/config': Permission denied

if I run whoami I get admin.. so I decided to add admin to the _www group like so:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a admin -t user _www

running 

dseditgroup -o checkmember -m admin _www

returns 

yes admin is a member of _www

however running git la still returns the same error above.. what do i do?

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Change owner of /website/directory/.git to your user:

$ chown -R admin /website/directory/.git
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  • ok maybe i should have asked the question a different way: how do i give apache access to my project root directory.. without taking away any of my admin user rights? b/c right now i can't even save the file in phpstorm or anything! if i run ls -l I get drwxrwxrwx 19 admin admin 646B Apr 22 17:39 lesson-plan-dev every other file in that directory has something like this drwxrwxrwx 6 admin staff 204B Mar 31 10:37 libraries.. ideas?
    – abbood
    Apr 23, 2014 at 7:29
  • please update main question if you want to ask something else completely.
    – ek9
    Apr 23, 2014 at 7:30
  • ok i'll mark your question as answered.. and ask another question
    – abbood
    Apr 23, 2014 at 7:32
  • asked here
    – abbood
    Apr 23, 2014 at 7:36

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