Quick Fix: Wordpress & Xampp permissions error on Mac

Recently I gave my Mac to another developer, while I created a new user entirely for her, Xampp appeared to be a shared app across every user — permissions, settings and all. So it turned out she couldn’t install plugins on a Wordpress installation on her localhost because Apache still identified my account as the owner.

The fix is pretty easy:

Open the file in terminal:

sudo subl /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf

Change:

User nobody
Group nogroup

To:

User your_mac_username
Group staff