Take the tour ×  I'm trying to set up a website using Silex
Bootstrap. I've put it in my folder with other web projects and
changed the DocumentRoot in the Apache config.  <Directory
/folder/to/silex_projects/web>      Options Indexes
FollowSymLinks MultiViews      AllowOverride All      Order
allow,deny       allow from all  But I can't open the index page
of the framework, Apache gives:  [Mon Dec 17 21:10:52 2012]
[crit] [client] (13)Permission denied:
/folder/to/silex_project/web/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to
check htaccess file, ensure it is readable  I've chmod'ed the
whole project folder with chmod a+r -R. Other projects in the
same folder are working fine with the .thaccess file. How can I
solve my prolbem.  O, and the .htaccess file does exists/
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down vote accepted  chmod 755 -R /silex_project/ solved my
problem. I still don't know why Apache needs write permissions
to work.  share|improve this answer add comment  This is
probably beca