XAMPP permissions

[robertobech]

I'm trying to setup xampp on my Puppy 2.16. I unpack the tarball to /opt, start the server with /opt/lampp/lampp start, but then when I try to access localhost I get this error:

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You don't have permission to access / on this server

I see that the htdocs folder has the permissions set to:

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drwxr-xr-x   4 nobody root  4096 2007-05-11 20:40 htdocs

And inside of it things are like this:

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-rw-r--r--  1 root   root 30894 2007-05-11 20:40 favicon.ico
-rw-r--r--  1 nobody root   163 2003-11-01 05:15 index.html
drwxr-xr-x  2 nobody root  4096 2004-12-26 18:30 webalizer
drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root  4096 2006-11-26 18:56 xampp

How can I solve it? I guess this has something to do with permissions, but I don't know how I should set them.

[GuestToo]

if you want to set the ownership of all the files in folders in a directory, you can type:

chown -R nobody:nobody /opt/lampp/htdocs

use the correct name of the folder, of course

some programs like web servers might have trouble if the web directory is in a pup_save file

[robertobech]

Thanks for your help, GuestToo, but in fact I know how to set the permissions. The problem is that I don't know the correct permissions for the webserver to work properly. I remember something about a www-data group or something like that used by apache in other distros I used.