CPanel bug?
I updated my servers CPanel so I could update Apache and PHP, to try and get the WordPress Blogger importer working.
But I ran into a problem once the update was complete, every site on my server kept returning a rather disturbing “Forbidden” message, and because I knew I hadn’t done anything wrong with the update I started to panic.
I said to myself - stop, think what could the problem be. - I logged into my server over SSH and took a look at the apache httpd.conf file and noticed my SVN setup was gone (oh shit!), so I copied my backup http.conf file over the new one and restarted apache and refreshed my site, it was working now.
But I didn’t stop there, I downloaded both httpd.conf files and compared them with a file compare program and noticed the “group” setting on the bad httpd.conf was “#-1″ and the good one was “nobody”, So after fixing that and adding back my SVN server info I uploaded it and restarted apache, took a look at my site and it was working still.
Now I know for a fact I never changed the group setting, it would have to be CPanel, right? So either CPanel has a bug, or something on my server did that - and the only 3rd party software installed is SVN which Liquid Web setup - unless Liquid Web has added some other things.