Give Apache and Account User File Writing Priviliges

Question

I am using OS X Mountain Lion for web development. I am running the built-in Apache server. Now I need to allow the PHP script I am running to write in a directory. But if I chown the directory to _www, then the editor I am using, which is being used with the logged in user's account, is then unable to edit/write those files. So it's either the _www that can write to the directory or the user.

So how shall I go about solving this?

Answer 1

Under OSX you can assign previleges to multiple users using the ACL. It can be accessed though Finder or its chmod implementation (+a option).

Or you can use the usual UNIX way where you create a group and put both your user and the apache user into it and make the group the group owner of the folder and chmod -R g+rw if necessary.