Permissions/Apache Question

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Stephen 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?

    Exexutable files must be writable only by their owner and usually
    should have all the execute bits set.

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