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apache error: directory is writable by others
10 minutes ago I tried to open this blog and got a 404 page instead. Quite disturbed, luckily I was looking at the right places to find out about this problem.
My first hunch was to look at Apache’s error log, was thinking in my head whether this error log is available for me via ssh (this is a shared hosting after all), however it turns out that I can check the log from Cpanel, even better!
Found out what the error was:
[2007-10-31 21:31:09]: error: directory is writable by others: (/home/tjandraw/public_html/lyceum)
Googling around “apache error: directory is writable by others”, and of course the cause was: my lyceum directory permission was 777 (all write, read, execute for everyone!).. I know.. what was I thinking. Changing it to 755 fixed the problem.
I wonder this site has been working for so long without any problem caused by that permission security hole, what has Jumba done to enforce this rule, ie no directories to have 777 permission, is it a part of Apache?
Apache in Fedora
D’oh the apache webserver doesn’t work straight out of the box in Fedora. I got an error when trying to start the service, looking at the log file, it was complaining that dhcppc0 (apparently that’s the name of my computer) has no IPv4 address. Solution: adding dhcppc0 to /etc/hosts.
Then access to localhost/~user doesn’t work, apparently I need to modify mod_userdir line on httpd.conf to enable userdir on public_html. But it still doesn’t work, another look at the log, I figured out that it’s a permission problem. Eventho public_html has the right permission but /home/user doesn’t. Anyway at least it’s working fine now.
