Cannot update plugin for WordPress on localhost on Mac

Question

I'm running WordPress 5.8.1 on localhost, on my Mac. I am unable to update plugins. I get this error:

Update failed: Could not create directory.

I've tried changing the permission on the wp-content folder as suggested here like this:

sudo chmod -R 755 wp-content

but it didn't work. I still get the error message.

I also tried this

sudo chown -R _www wp-dir
sudo chmod -R g+w wp-dir

still no luck.

Answer 1

Ok, Managed to find the issue. Apache uses a different username so this command was ok:

sudo chown -R _www wp-dir

But my username wasn't _www (hence my error)

you can find the apache username in the etc/httpd.conf file