How to remove “Connection Information” requirement on localhost install of WP on MACOSX

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I’ve just installed XAMPP on Mac OSX and when trying to install a theme or plugin in WP admin, I’m getting this screen. I’ve never gotten this on my shared hosting account. how to get rid of it on localhost?

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Have you tried updating the permissions for your WordPress files to 755 or 777?

UPDATE 1

Thanks to @anu in the comments (~/Sites assumes you put websites are in the Mac’s default website directory):

cd ~/Sites
sudo chmod -R 777 *

I just checked my httpd.conf file, which has the path /Applications/XAMPP/etc/httpd.conf and here is what I found starting on line 127 so I think
@gabrielk’s answer is probably what you need.

# running httpd, as with most system services.
#
User mikeschinkel
Group everyone

</IfModule>
</IfModule>

UPDATE 2

If you were to decide to use the built-in Apache a tool you should definitely consider getting for the Mac is VirtualHostX. It manages all your Apache and your hosts files for setting up local “domains”. It’s one of my favorite tools on the Mac:

VirtualHostX Screenshot

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