Forbidden access

[Steel Rat]

Hello All,

I'm suddenly getting a forbidden error when trying to access a domain that was just transferred to my DNS. The error logs show the following:

[Thu Jan 6 15:10:24 2005] [crit] [client 204.42.16.169] (13)Permission denied: /home/hmann/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

The .htaccess file in question was set at 644, same as others for other domains, but was zero bytes. I had never modified it. I tried copying another .htaccess file from a domain that worked and editing for the correct domain, but no change in the error. Also tried deleting the file, same thing. Also tried chmod-ing the zero byte file to 777, still no change. Ls shows that the owner is correct, as compared to files in other domains.

Anyone have any ideas?

thanks!

[murphy_young]

Did you chmod 777 /home/hmann ?