Prestashop on mamp for mac “Recursive write permissions” error

[Gardensofthesun]

Good morning, 

 

I am trying to install Prestashop on my Mac using MAMP, but when checking Prestashop compatibility I receive the following error on recursive write permissions for user. 

 

I am an absolute newbie in this. I've searched for answers on the web, that suggested setting chmod at 777 but I have no clue what this means. How can I get around this error in dummy language?

 

Thanks!

 

 

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• Permissions on files and folders
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/config/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/cache/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/log/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/img/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/mails/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/modules/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/themes/default-bootstrap/lang/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/themes/default-bootstrap/pdf/lang/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/themes/default-bootstrap/cache/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/translations/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/upload/
• Recursive write permissions for ‘apache’ user on ~/download/

[Czarekplpl]

chmod is used to set up permission to the file or folder such us read, write, execute. rwx for file owner, group or everybody so respectively rwxrwxrwx is same as 777 mean full acces for owner group and anybody. This is not secure solution but can be used just for tests.

Type in google: chmod for more info.

For recursive: -R

So comand in linux looks like this: chmod -R 777 path (for example: chmod -R 777/var/www/prestashop)