Invalid project contents directory error

Question

When I try to download my existing project using Eclipse, I get the error "Invalid project contents directory."

I created these files in a Windows environment and now I am trying to open these files as PHP projects in Linux.

What can I do to fix this problem?

Answer 1

After using the chown command on my WWW folder, the problem disappeared. I think the problem is that eclipse cannot create new files inside these folders. (Duh!)

So:

sudo chown -R /var/www user:group 

Answer 2

There is another workaround: you can run eclipse through the terminal using the sudo command.