On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:42:35PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> My guess is the web server can not access the file, because the parent
> directory's permissions (or those of the parent of the parent
> directory, etc.) are too restrictive.

FWIW, the permissions of your log file are kind of odd... they're not
"wrong" per se, but they are a bit nonsensical.  I deleted the message
where you gave them, but I believe they were --w--wx-wT.  Thus you
have the execute bit set for group; this does nothing, unless the file
contains an executable script (or is a directory).  You also have the
sticky bit set, which also does nothing, at least for regular files on
Linux.  In the old days, it used to tell the operating system to keep
the executable pages of a binary in memory permanently...

If this were actually a directory (into which a series of log files
were written, for example), then it would be a different matter...
those permissions would almost make sense.   But in that case, the
directory would need to have the execute bit set for "other" so that
the web server can write files in it (the 'T' would be a small 't',
permissions mode 01233).

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