SoftException in Application.cpp:249: can't acces file

Question

I have a site with news messages.

And in my .htacces file I have this line of code.

RewriteRule ^event/([0-9]+)/?$ events.php?id=$1

If I go to mysite.com/index/event/1 I get an 500 internal server error

The weird thing is that if I change the .htacces to

RewriteRule ^event/([0-9]+)/?$ nieuws_read.php?id=$1

I don't get that error and the page works correctly.

How is it possible that it doesn't work with all files.

I got this error

    [Tue May 27 17:46:41 2014] [error] [client ipadress] SoftException in Application.cpp:249: File "/../../../../public_html/new/events.php" is writeable by group, referer: http://new.mysite.eu/index/events
[Tue May 27 17:46:41 2014] [error] [client ipadress] Premature end of script headers: events.php, referer: http://new.mysite.eu/index/events
[Tue May 27 17:46:41 2014] [error] [client ipadress] File does not exist: /../../../../public_html/new/500.shtml, referer: http://new.mysite.eu/index/events

I hope I gave you enough info. Thx

Answer 1

It's a permission issue. The one-liner command below should fix it.

You'll need to change the username:apache part below to the user:group names of your http server. Group on Apache is often apache, on Nginx it's www-data.

First cd into your website public directory.

sudo chmod 2775 . && sudo chown -R username:apache . && sudo find . -type d -exec chmod g=rwxs "{}" \; && sudo find . -type f -exec chmod g=rw  "{}" \; && sudo setfacl -d -m g::rwx . && sudo setfacl -d -m o::rx .

This will make those permissions persistent to all new files copied to or created in this folder.

Then you can view your new permissions with:

getfacl .