ianaSystems wrote:
Thank you for the answer. It makes sense that writing into the /Applications folder might be difficult for apps. I wasn't aware of this before.
The permissions system in macOS is very tricky. It is designed for standard apps and standard user documents. Software like this doesn't qualify in either case. You will need to examine how it is being run. If it is running as a process owned by the logged in user, then you can (and should) put it (the data) somewhere in your home directory. If it is running as root, then it should probably be in somewhere in /Library. If it is running as a custom, dedicated user, then it gets tricky. In all cases, you may need some non-standard permissions settings to allow the software to access the data.
It would probably be a good idea to look at this User Tip: Setting up a local web server on macOS 14… - Apple Community. You aren't using the built-in version of Apache, but this user tip describes the funky permissions setting that you would need to allow a process running as a dedicated user (the built-in _www user, in this case) to access files in a user folder.
My project directory is currently located in the XAMPP htdocs folder. If I move my project directory, how would I access it via virtual host?
This is the same as it is always done in Apache. You just have to locate the Apache configuration file for your custom Apache server and point the virtual host to your folder. That user tip above describes how to do this for the built-in version of Apache. It should be virtually identical for XAMPP. You just have to find the Apache configuration file that it is using.
I've already updated the Apache httpd.conf file to allow for virtual hosts and configured it to recognize my Laravel application's domain name (www.ezonlinetools.com). Would I have to run the project via the "php artisan serve" command instead?
No idea about any of that.
