FTP credentials on localhost [duplicate]

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wordpress on localhost lamp doesn’t let me install plugins

I just started working locally with WordPress. Trying to update theme/plugins I get asked for my FTP credentials and I get really confused…what the heck is my FTP credentials when working locally?

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Set file permissions

On Mac OS X (Leopard), the Apache HTTP Server runs under the user account, _www which belongs to the group _www. To allow WordPress to configure wp-config.php during installation, update files during upgrades, and update the .htaccess file for pretty permalinks, give the server write permission on the files.

One way to do this is to change the owner of the wordpress directory and its contents to _www. Keep the group as staff, a group to which your user account belongs and give write permissions to the group.

$ cd /<wherever>/Sites/<thesite>
$ sudo chown -R _www wordpress
$ sudo chmod -R g+w wordpress

This way, the WordPress directories have a permission level of 775 and files have a permission level of 664. No file nor directory is world-writeable.

You can read more about it on mamp forum: http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15917

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