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Hi guys,

I noticed that when accessing some pages on my site, I'm getting:

Quote:Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/1.3.37 Server at forumz.coolestech.com Port 80

This happens on some files of the adminCP, like index.php and templates.php . It also gets this error with some cPanel areas.

Here is the server log:
[2006-09-07 16:16:03]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/index.php)
[2006-09-07 16:10:10]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/maintenance.php)
[2006-09-07 16:10:04]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/templates.php)
[2006-09-07 16:09:59]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/themes.php)
[2006-09-07 16:09:51]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/themes.php)
[2006-09-07 16:09:43]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/themes.php)
[2006-09-07 16:09:39]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/admin/themes.php)
[2006-09-07 10:23:04]: error: file is writable by others: (/home/cooleste/public_html/forumz/calendar.php)

Settings the files to 555 fixes this error, but I'm wondering why this is happening.

It sounds like your server is running PHP as a CGI Module. Under that configuration, you cannot have a directory set to be writable by all (chmod 777) if that directory contains any php file.