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How to change xampp htdocs directory in Mac OS Big Sur – Apache

I have installed Xampp 7.2.34 from https://www.apachefriends.org in Big Sur.
XAMPP htdocs folder is placed in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles directory. Is there anyway that I can change the location of htdocs folder and place all my projects in the new location.

Current Location: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs

Desired Location: /Users/user/Desktop/Work/PHP/htdocs

I am following this question in Stackoverflow but it seems quite old and I was not able to accomplish what I required.

Already done:

  1. Created new empty htdocs folder on desired location
  2. Changed User daemon to User user in xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf
  3. Didn’t change Group daemon
  4. Changed DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs" to DocumentRoot "/Users/user/Desktop/Work/PHP/htdocs" in xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf
  5. Changed <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs"> to <Directory "/Users/user/Desktop/Work/PHP/htdocs"> in xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf
  6. I also uncommented this line of code Include etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf in xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf

Result:

Access forbidden! error.

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What did I miss? Has something changed in these years? TIA.

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  1. 0

    I have the same issue, but worked with this this solution. You could using Xampp in another version, Xampp 7.4.15 with this configuration

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  2. 0

    This worked for me using XAMPP 8.2.0 and macOS 12.6.2 Monterrey:

    Make a copy of htdocs and put it where you want it. In my case, I made my copy in /Users/me/Dropbox/XAMPP/htdocs

    • Edit /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/httpd.conf

    • Change
      DocumentRoot "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs”
      to
      DocumentRoot "/Users/me/Dropbox/XAMPP/htdocs"

    • Change
      <Directory "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs”>
      to
      <Directory "/Users/me/Dropbox/Programming/XAMPP/htdocs">

    • Change
      User daemon
      to
      User me (your user name)

    • Edit /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

    • After
      $cfg[‘SaveDir’] = ”;
      add
      $cfg[‘TempDir’] = ‘/tmp’;

    • Edit /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/properties.ini

    • Change
      apache_htdocs_directory=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs
      to
      apache_htdocs_directory=/Users/me/Dropbox/Programming/XAMPP/htdocs

    Save the files and restart the servers.

    That was it. Hope helps someone. I looked for this answer for a long time.

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