Cannot change ownership of 'public_html'

[JCalicod]

Hello,

In order to fix a 500 error on my website, I tried to change the owner of all folders and files in public_html.
I followed what the user asend said here : 500 Internal Server Error with PHP file and so I did this command :

chown -R my_user:my_user public_html

After doing this, I had to do the following command :

chown my_user:nobody public_html

But I had the following error :

chown: changing ownership of 'public_html': Operation not permitted

I do not understand because the previous chown command worked.

And now I have a 403 error instead of a 500 error..

Can someone help me please?

I'm french, sorry for my mistakes.

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hello,


I'd assume this is because you've done this as your cPanel user and changing the permissions of the usergroup for the public_html folder is not something your user has the privileges to do. You'd need to contact your hosting provider to resolve this for you.