Permission denied: /var/www/abc/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable?

Question

Hi all I\'m using PHP for my website and ubuntu linux on my system. I got the above error in error.log file of apache, even after configurating everything properly. I did a

Answer 1

Make sure that the htaccess file is readable by apache:

chmod 644 /var/www/abc/.htaccess 

And make sure the directory it's in is readable and executable:

chmod 755 /var/www/abc/