Unable to open HTTPD.Conf file.

[inogenius]

Okay, about two weeks ago the server got hacked. Restored it to Red Hat Enterprise 3, re built all the accounts.

Now in cPanel all my customers get this error;
Fatal Error! Unable to open httpd config file /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

It really is writeable though. You can add an add-on domain or subdomain. It'll spit out an error, but it actually does go through. I can change the CHMOD settings and the error will go away until /scripts/upcp is ran again. It then returns.
Submitted a ticket to cPanel and all they did was the quick fix of changing the CHMOD settings.

Anyone else know of anything that might fix it?

[trakwebster]

I'm not very knowledgeable about this, but first, are you really spelling it HTTPD.Conf? (Because it *should* be spelled httpd.conf.)

Nextly, who owns it?

If you can open it and cpanel can't, then perhaps it's owned by you, but not by the user that cpanel is, if you follow me.

[inogenius]

Yeah, I'm actually spelling it httpd.conf. I don't know why I capitalized it in the title. Lack of sleep maybe.

I gotcha for the "own" settings. I'll have to look into that.

[inogenius]

Ah, turns out you need to change all 300 of the httpd.conf files CHMOD settings.

[orb_sp]

Originally posted by inogenius
Ah, turns out you need to change all 300 of the httpd.conf files CHMOD settings.

I don't know about you but all I have to do is chmod o=r on the one /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf.

However, I seem to lose the permissions on the file. I'm assuming that an update of sorts resets the permissions.

[SarcNBit]

Originally posted by inogenius
Now in cPanel all my customers get this error;
Fatal Error! Unable to open httpd config file /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

Are you running a grsecurity patched server?

I have seen this error on all of my grsecurity patched cpanel servers but not on my one non-grsec cpanel server.

[orb_sp]

Does anyone have any idea as to how to fix this?

My server did have grsecurity installed but has since been removed.


- orb_sp

[Def]

I'm getting this as well. Anyone know a fix?

Thanks.

[SACHIN]

chmod 644 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

[eglwolf]

Has this been fixed yet, becuase I still have this problem, and it is cuasing alot of problem. Or can someone tell me how to create a cron script to do the permissions change??

[SACHIN]

Hello,

1)vi chht
2)insert following syntax
3)save it
4)chmod 755 chht
5)mv chht /etc/cron.d/




#!/bin/sh
* * * * * root /bin/chmod 644 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf


it will be work gr8....

[tjb]

Hi first off i am new to servers but i had this on two servers. I can fix it by running a cron every minute to change the chmod of http.conf to 644. This works but is not great as when a customers adds a park or sub domain they see the fatal eror mgs for one minute.

My small server in the end had to be reinstalled by the provider, cpanel installed again and the accounts brought back. Everything is fine again.

However my second server which is my main server can not afford tobe down that long so I really need a fix for this

Has anyone fixed the contance changing of the chmod of http.conf and if so can they explain how to do it?

Thank you for any help offered.
TJ

[b0072k1]

im still getting this problem

[SACHIN]

hello,

please do the following steps.

vi /usr/local/cpanel/bin/chmodhttpdconf
set 644

we have to find which cpanel script change the httpd.conf permission so that we can fix this issue permanently.

[eglwolf]

hello,

please do the following steps.

vi /usr/local/cpanel/bin/chmodhttpdconf
set 644

we have to find which cpanel script change the httpd.conf permission so that we can fix this issue permanently.

I have done this however I still get the error. I only get it on centos 3.4 server I have. Any other solutions in the mix?