new vps internal error problems

[randyriegel]

I just upgraded to a VPS. I was having problems executing a simple PHP script. 500 Internal Error.

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

I found the following error in the error log:

[Tue Nov 24 11:20:22 2009] [error] [client 24.3.40.220] SoftException in Application.cpp:238: File "/home/riegel/public_html/index.php" is writeable by group

I corrected this by "chmod g-w file.php". This will be a pain to do this to ever file I create. When I create a file on the server I it has permissions "-rw-rw-r--". How can I make every file I create default to "-rw-r--r--"?

[randyriegel]

Ok, fixed it myself. Changed the line in /etc/bashrc that had:

umask 0002

to

umask 0022

Now it's creating files with 644 instead of 664.

Randy

[jason]

Changing the umask is probably the best way to go, but assuming that your VPS is running suPHP, you can probably also change the setting in /etc/suphp.conf to allow files that are group writable. Sometimes things need to be group writable--like when you have multiple users accessing a single site--though in the shared hosting world this type of access is rarely necessary.

--Jason

[randyriegel]

I can't find a suphp.conf file in /etc. My phpinfo(); says I'm running PHP as CGI. Is there a reason I would need suPHP?

As far as being writable (like you said it rarely happens in shared environment) I can make it writable if needed. Just didn't want to have to change permissions of every PHP file I created to get it to work.