Magento: Your web server is configured incorrectly

magento ssh permissions rights
user2576151 picture user2576151 · Jul 12, 2013 · Viewed 21.4k times · Source

From a live magento setup I made a tar.gz, moved that to an domains of another DirectAdmin user, extracted the tar.gz, copied the database, changed the URL of domain in the database. Front-end works good.

Backend gives me the following error:

Your web server is configured incorrectly. As a result, configuration files with sensitive information are accessible from the outside. Please contact your hosting provider.”

I already check the folder and file permission. Also tried to change the rights from the user:group settings with SSH access to the same user as the DirectAdmin user name. But that did not work either.

Note that this installation is on the same server as the live environment.

Live: (working) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/197/nrhj.png/
Test: (not working) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/542/uklz.png/

Answer

Fiasco Labs picture Fiasco Labs · Jul 13, 2013

Specifically check the permissions on app/etc/local.xml as usually this means it is world readable.

Also, there is supposed to be a .htaccess file in app/etc/ that denies the contents from being served out by the web server. Check just in case your tar backup didn't include it. Usually this problem comes about from using an FTP client to do the transfer that has had hidden file visibility turned off.

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