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ramennoodles's avatar
ramennoodles
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Permissions error after Mac migration / localhost

Hey everyone! The Dropbox app recently moved my Dropbox folder in to the Library and now my web development environment isn't working properly. Whenever I go to my 'localhost', I get error messages. ...
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  • ramennoodles's avatar
    ramennoodles
    2 years ago

    hey maxymouse, try changing the port setting in the MAMP preferences. I changed mine from 80 to 8080 and it's working?? Speculation: port 80 is being used by something else. Can you try this and see if it works on your end?

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maxymouse
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

I use a tool called MAMP to view websites in development, which I keep in Dropbox, and I've always set the VirtualHost document root to this:

 

/Users/maxymouse/Dropbox/

 

That no longer works, so I've been trying other options, but nothing seems to work. E.g.

 

/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/

/Users/maxymouse/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/

 

No matter what I do, trying to visit web pages in the browser gives "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this resource."

Am I getting the file path wrong, or are there some permissions I need to set, or is it just impossible to keep these files in Dropbox any more?

Thanks for any help. (Using Mac Ventura 13.3.1)

  • ramennoodles's avatar
    ramennoodles
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    I haven't solved it yet; but I am looking into MAMP settings.

    I ran an experiment where I installed PHP through Homebrew to test and their web server and localhost is accessible.

     

    • ramennoodles's avatar
      ramennoodles
      Helpful | Level 5
      2 years ago

      hey maxymouse, try changing the port setting in the MAMP preferences. I changed mine from 80 to 8080 and it's working?? Speculation: port 80 is being used by something else. Can you try this and see if it works on your end?

      • maxymouse's avatar
        maxymouse
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        Thanks very much, ramennoodles. I played around with it over the week end and also found that I got it working using the default ports (8888). Before that, I moved the files out of Dropbox and still found that port 80 wasn't working, but I doubt I have anything else on this computer that could be using port 80 (it's never been a problem before), so I suspect Apple may have added some restrictions to using port 80, although this sort of thing is way over my head. If ports 8080 and 8888 work, that's good enough for me! (It makes no difference, except that the URLs are a bit uglier. Meh.)

        I was wondering if I should bother moving the files back into Dropbox, but your post has at least confirmed that I could definitely do that. I ended up putting them in the Documents folder and using Dropbox Backup, which also serves as a way to back up files. Now I'm wondering if I should bother moving the files back into Dropbox proper, given that they're backed up anyway. 

         

        Anyhow, thanks again for looking into it and posting your findings!

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