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Before creating ColdFusion projects in ColdFusion Builder, if you're working
on a Mac, you should check your file permissions on the newly created web document root.
When the installation application sets up these folders, it sets up some
restrictions that can get in your way if you try to log in as another user on your Mac.
To fix these problems ahead of time, go to the Applications folder, to
the ColdFusion9 folder. Then locate the wwwroot folder.
This is the default document root. Press Command+I, or right-click, or Ctrl+
Click on the folder and choose Get Info. That brings up the Info screen.
Notice under Sharing & Permissions, at the bottom of the Info screen, that the
current user who did the installation is given read and write permissions, but
the admin and everyone groups are given only read only permissions.
This can cause a problem, again, if you log in as another user on the same machine.
To correct this, click the Lock icon at the lower right-hand corner of the Info dialog.
You'll need to type in your user password and you must be logged in as an
administrator to do this. Then go to each of the items here and change
them from Read Only to Read & Write. So now everybody on the computer has read
and write access to that wwwroot folder and you'll be able to set up your servers
and create new projects within the document root, without running into permissions
issues. I'll click the Lock icon again and that will
save the changes to the permissions. You should now be able to use the wwwroot
folder as any logged in user, and you'll be able to create new files and folders
as needed to work with your ColdFusion applications.