I reimaged my server and uploaded backups I made with plesk. I imported them via the shell in the way Plesk describes it in their FAQs.

Now, when I access domain.com I get 403 / Forbidden.

The error_log says:

[Fri Jul 22 16:01:44 2005] [crit] [client 84.86.11.210] (13)Permission denied: /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

Now, the error would be quite ... obvious but there never was a .htaccess file in there and even when I put one there (empty of course) and chmod it to 777 and chown it to domainsacln it doesnt work.

I've got no clue as to why. I'd re-create the client but the problem is that I have no clue how to back up my mails and I'd rather just fix the apache problem.

suggestions, anyone? how do I teach plesk to love me again?

 

anything fishy in the config files?

 

Assuming you have Plesk 7.5.3 since you didn't say...

What version of PHP is on your server? This was an old PHP3 bug:

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:hQc9CROUqJwJ:bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=1884+pcfg_openfile&hl=en

Another possibility: check the perms on the httpdocs folder (and ownership)

drwxr-x--x 12 ftpusername psaserv 4096 Jul 21 22:11 httpdocs

 

well that is of course most embarassing.

I thought plesk would restore the same chmods / chowns as before the backup but since it didnt work, I chmodded to ftpusernamesaCLN not psaSERV.

psaserv really did it for me.

thanks a lot.

 

No problem, that is just another reason I use 4psa's Total Backup instead of psadump/psarestore.

It's always the simple things that get us

(like trying to learn how to rebuild php from sRPM's)