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From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@slive.ca>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>,
	<supers@oceanfree.net>
Subject: RE: permission to open password file
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:21:06 -0500
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> From: supers@oceanfree.net [mailto:supers@oceanfree.net]

> [Fri Dec 28 23:04:27 2001] [error] [client 203.201.2.121]
> (13)Permission denied:
> Could not open password file: /usr/local/httpd/passwd/password

> drwxrwx---   13 root     root          312 Dec 28 21:14 ..

This indicatest that the web server user can't even get into
/usr/local/httpd, so the permissions on directories below that are
irrelevant.  You need to give at least search permission (+x) to all parent
directories.

Joshua.


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