[scip]

I downloaded and installed Complete Apache 2 for OS X from serverlogistics.com. I am trying to edit the httpd.conf file, and I get a "Couldn't Save" error in TextEdit. I'm pretty sure this has to do with file permissions, but I am an admin on the box.

How do I correct this?

Steve

[gorickey]

Is it opening up in "Read-Only" format?

What are the exact permissions on the file?

[fat mac moron]

Launch terminal:

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Edit your changes and then Control-X to exit. It'll ask you to save changes before it closes pico.

[scip]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Is it opening up in "Read-Only" format?

What are the exact permissions on the file?

It's not necessarily opening in read-only format...though I can't tell.

Permissions are as follows:

Owner: system
access: r/w

Group: admin
access: r/w

Others: read only


I'm logged in as myself, which is the only user on the system (and hence an administrator on the box).

I wonder if I have to change anything in NetInfo Manager...?

[scip]

Originally posted by fat mac moron:
Launch terminal:

sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Edit your changes and then Control-X to exit. It'll ask you to save changes before it closes pico.

That'll work for the built-in Apache install.

I'm trying to config Complete Apache 2 (downloaded from serverlogistics.com), where the config file lives at the /Library/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf path.

Steve

[fat mac moron]

Originally posted by scip:
where the config file lives at the /Library/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf path.

Steve

It'll work if you replace "sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf"

with

sudo pico /Library/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf and make your changes.

[cambro]

Dude,

BBEdit...open hidden.

[scip]

Originally posted by fat mac moron:
It'll work if you replace "sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf"

with

sudo pico /Library/Apache2/conf/httpd.conf and make your changes.

Not that I fear the command line, but I'd like to be able to do this from the GUI. After all, this IS the Mac OS.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by scip:
Not that I fear the command line, but I'd like to be able to do this from the GUI. After all, this IS the Mac OS.

Just change the owner from "system" to yourself...make your changes, and set the owner back to "system"....

[scip]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Just change the owner from "system" to yourself...make your changes, and set the owner back to "system"....

I already tried that. No workie.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by scip:
I already tried that. No workie.

Hmm, interesting...you have r/w access...

[scip]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Hmm, interesting...you have r/w access...

Yes.

Owner: Me
Access: r/w

Group: admin
Access: r/w

Others: Read only

[scip]

Originally posted by scip:
Yes.

Owner: Me
Access: r/w

Group: admin
Access: r/w

Others: Read only

Well, I ended up having to change the permissions on the conf directory as well in order to get it to allow me to save changes.

Now, I can load content from a different directory on the machine running Apache (http://localhost/) but I can't seem to see that same content on a machine across my LAN, by using either the IP address or the domain name I've given the machine.