local mountain lion os x install permission problems (1 reply)

I'm trying to install piwik in a local OS X development environment but am running into permissions problems.

here is what the install error message reads:

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Piwik couldn't write to some directories.

Try to Execute the following commands on your server, to allow Write access on these directories:

chown -R www-data:www-data /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik
chmod -R 0755 /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik/tmp
chmod -R 0755 /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik/tmp/templates_c
chmod -R 0755 /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik/tmp/cache
chmod -R 0755 /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik/tmp/assets
chmod -R 0755 /Users/me/Sites/project/piwik/tmp/tcpdf

The first line above doesn't work - Terminal tells me:

chown: www-data: illegal group name

The second command worked, but the rest didn't as the directories weren't yet created. I created them then re-ran the commands and those all worked.

Any help for how to deal with the error I get from running the first command above?