xampp on windows 7: set chmod

windows-7 xampp concrete5
nerdess picture nerdess · Dec 6, 2011 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

i am running xampp on my windows 7 machine. i've downloaded the sourcecode for concrete5 5.4.2.2 (that is a PHP-based CMS) but some directories are not writeable, see screenie:

install screen since there is no such thing as chmod on windows i am now wondering how to make the folders writeable by the webserver?!

Answer

Feasoron picture Feasoron · Dec 6, 2011

There are two steps that should help you. First, check what user the web server is running as. If you can't see it easily, just Task Manager - it should show you. Then, once you know that user, give him read/write permissions through windows explorer to that folder. Alternatively, you could give "eveyone" access this way, but that has some serious security implications.

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