PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream

Question

I edited the apache httpd.conf file recently for the mod_rewrite to work. I don\'t know if this problem originated from that or not, but i\'m getting this problem from that

Answer 1

In my case the group _www that apache uses was missing in the folder's access list, so first I had to add the missing group, like so:

sudo chown -R _www ~/path-to-folder

Change _www to whatever user or group that apache is running as.

Find out apache's user/group using apachectl -S

The output is huge, but look at the very end something like:

User: name="_www"
Group: name="_www"