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In order to make my MAMP environment be more like my work environment, I'm trying to change Apache to run under _www rather than <myusername>.
I located the appropriate httpd.conf file in the folder /Applications/MAMP/Library/conf/apache, but when I save my changes and restart MAMP, I find that it has changed the User directive back to <myusername>.
So either Apache or some aspect of MAMP is not allowing me to change this directive. Does anyone know which program is causing the rewrite and how to circumvent this problem?
The reason I'm trying to do this really is that I don't want PHP to run as <myusername> and from what I've read, changing Apache will fix that, since PHP is spawned by Apache.
AmadeusDrZaius
Posted 2014-07-18T01:31:09.163
Reputation: 137
Note: technically, php isn't (usually) spawned by Apache, instead php runs inside Apache. – Rich Homolka – 2014-07-18T01:48:04.597
What does it mean to run "inside" Apache? Do you know of any resources about this sort of thing I could look at? It's hard to find anything concrete about how Apache and PHP work together. – AmadeusDrZaius – 2014-07-18T02:29:03.190
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PHP, normally, is already in apache.
– Rich Homolka – 2014-07-20T18:50:33.807