Permissions/Apache Question

[ted leslie]

apache usually runs as "nobody" or "web" or "www" account, don't run
apache as "root" and it doesn't sound like you do.
the file has to be readable (and perhaps exe) by the owner of the
apache process.
do a ps ax and see who owns your apache. also you can get into a group
permission set up to that may work for you.
also i don't thing you "turned the bits off"?
chmod [o|g|u]+rx
or use the old octal format, but as i look at it, you would have to
turn "on" bits, or change owner of the file to be owned by same owner
as apache,
or get into group permissions.

tl

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am creating a new web site, and I ftp'ed the index.php file to the host.
>
> I got a 500 internal server error.
>
> It turns out that the problem was that the permissions on the file had the
> execution bits set for owner, group and all.
>
> When I turned the bits off, all was well.
>
> Can someone explain why the settings would matter? Is this a general Linux
> thing, or strictly an Apache thing?
>
> On my local LAMP I had no issues when testing.
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
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