I was making a copy of a client’s site into a subdirectory so that I could access it via a subdomain and use it for testing. When I tried, I got the following error:
pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
After double-checking the permissions, I did a bit of searching and found the answer on The HungryCoder’s blog. It’s entitled Permission denied: .htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable and points out the problem. It’s not the permissions of .htaccess that are the problem, but rather the permissions on the subdirectory that contains it. Changing the subdirectory’s permissions to allow reading and executing by all solved the problem.
chmod 755 subdir
