Thread:Project:Support desk/HTTP 500 error when localsettings.php permissions set to 600/reply (4)

Thanks for the help so far guys, I am indeed on shared hosting. I raised a ticket with the host company and they changed the permissions to 605, which does fix the issue. However I'm unsure if having public execute permissions is secure? Could this cause a problem and should I ask the host to change the owner for the file?

UPDATE: I got the hosting company to change the owner and permissions as recommended above.