I have a few different servers, and on some servers, I can chmod the public_html folder to 777 permissions without problems - but on other servers, I get error messages. When trying to access the domain I get an Internal Server Error, and in my cpanel error_log on one server I get messages like the following:
Fri Oct 08 09:55:39 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.x] SoftException in Application.cpp:601: Directory "/home/managedi/public_html" is writeable by group
The reason I need to temporarily change the public_html permissions to 777 is so that a php script that executes the shell unzip command will work properly, and be able to extract files when accessed via URL.
Is there some server setting that causes 777 permissions for public_html to give an Internal Server Error? How can I get rid of this error while still changing the permissions for public_html?