Target uid/gid Mismatch with Directory or Program

Monday, December 10th, 2007

This Sunday at 2 AM, I got a call from one client, who complained that  on his website stopped working all of a sudden. This being peak season for his business, he was a worried lot and wanted me to give it an immediate attention. I rushed to my workstation. Client was on phone telling me the urls and script names which stopped working. I saw it was throwing “500 ”. My first question to client was if he has made any changes to the scripts or re-uploaded or changed the permissions on the files.

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