Permissions error after Mac migration / localhost

Hi ramennoodles, welcome to our Community! 

After this recent app change, does this error happen with all of your development files in Dropbox?

Could you also attach some screenshots of the error, in order for me to have a visual too?

Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!

Hey Megan, thanks for looking into this. I directly opened an HTML file from my Dropbox in my browser and it works. However, I can't access the same file through 'localhost'. In MAMP, you can set a default directory, so I've tried updating that to point to other folders with no success. 

Looking again at my environment: Dropbox files (PHP) > MAMP > Safari browser. Perhaps there is something to going on with Dropbox + MAMP settings. 

Hi ramennoodles. it's possible that MAMP doesn't support the new location, so I'd recommend contacting them for further support on this matter. 

I use a tool called MAMP to view websites in development, which I keep in Dropbox, and I've always set the VirtualHost document root to this:

/Users/maxymouse/Dropbox/

That no longer works, so I've been trying other options, but nothing seems to work. E.g.

/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/

/Users/maxymouse/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/

No matter what I do, trying to visit web pages in the browser gives "403 Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this resource."

Am I getting the file path wrong, or are there some permissions I need to set, or is it just impossible to keep these files in Dropbox any more?

Thanks for any help. (Using Mac Ventura 13.3.1)

Ah, looks like the same question was asked a few days ago: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Apps-and-Installations/Permissions-error-after-Mac-migration-localhost/td-p/678073

Looks like I'm out of luck. 

I haven't solved it yet; but I am looking into MAMP settings.

I ran an experiment where I installed PHP through Homebrew to test and their web server and localhost is accessible.

Thanks very much, ramennoodles. I played around with it over the week end and also found that I got it working using the default ports (8888). Before that, I moved the files out of Dropbox and still found that port 80 wasn't working, but I doubt I have anything else on this computer that could be using port 80 (it's never been a problem before), so I suspect Apple may have added some restrictions to using port 80, although this sort of thing is way over my head. If ports 8080 and 8888 work, that's good enough for me! (It makes no difference, except that the URLs are a bit uglier. Meh.)

I was wondering if I should bother moving the files back into Dropbox, but your post has at least confirmed that I could definitely do that. I ended up putting them in the Documents folder and using Dropbox Backup, which also serves as a way to back up files. Now I'm wondering if I should bother moving the files back into Dropbox proper, given that they're backed up anyway. 

Anyhow, thanks again for looking into it and posting your findings!

Hey maxymouse, sorry to jump in here, but are you still having issues with this? 

If so, you can try granting MAMP full disk access permission and if it persists, you might need to reach out to MAMP for further assistance.

In any case, please keep us posted!

Thanks Walter. I have found a solution (mentioned above), and I didn't find giving MAMP full disk access made a difference, although it was worth a try! It seems to be more about Mac restricting access to port 80 … although I barely even know what that means!