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John Moore
John Moore

Reputation: 332

How to give Apache access to external drive on MacOS Catalina onwards

On my new Big Sur Mac, I put the Apache document root on an external drive.

When I access it, the log showed no permissions: http://localhost/

I tried what worked for another user: sudo chmod -R _www mydirectory

I still get the error:

file permissions deny server access: /Volumes/SSD1/Sites/index.html

Also, an ls doesn't show the chmod working:

/Volumes/SSD1$ sudo chgrp -R _www Sites
/Volumes/SSD1$ ls -ld Sites Sites/index.html
drwxr-xr-x  19 John  staff  608 Feb 24 01:13 Sites
-r--r--r--   1 John  staff  833 Feb 24 01:13 Sites/index.html
/Volumes/SSD1$

Note that if I put that same directory tree under my home directory, it works (with corresponding changes to httpd.conf, of course.

Thoughts?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1315

Answers (1)

John Moore
John Moore

Reputation: 332

I finally solved it. It took two tricks - one MacOS, and one Apache:

  1. A getinfo on the drive showed that "Ignore ownership on this volume" was set. I fixed that. Note - this is on the very bottom of the Info dialog.

  2. As mentioned in an answer to another question - I changed the group (using the shell in terminal) on everything in my directory to _www:

    chgrp -R _www Sites

Upvotes: 1

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