pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

Nirraymond

• February 26, 2020 08:49

Recently I logged into cPanel and view lots of error logs like this: "Permission denied: [client] AH00529: /home/username/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable and that '/home/username/public_html/' is executable" I then checked the permissions using the following commands: "stat /home/username stat /home/username/public_html" The permissions on the folder "/home/username" is 0711, while the permissions on the folder "/home/username/public_html" is 0750. Additionally, the permissions on the .htaccess is 0644. How could I fix this problem? Please help! Thanks a lot!

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  quietFinn

  • February 26, 2020 15:28

  How about owner/group of .htaccess ?

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  cPanelLauren

  • February 26, 2020 18:25

  The permissions are standard - I'd want to know the ownership of both public_html and .htaccess as @quietFinn suggested.

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  Nirraymond

  • February 26, 2020 21:24

  The ownership of both public_html and .htaccess is the only-one FTP user account I used to manage cPanel.

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  quietFinn

  • February 27, 2020 14:27

  The group of public_html should be nobody.

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  Nirraymond

  • March 01, 2020 13:22

  The group of public_html should be nobody.

  
  I did as you suggested. Additionally, I changed my EasyApache to use a different profile so it would use suexec instead of mod_ruid2, and eventually the issue was gone. Thanks very much!

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