Thread:Project:Support desk/HTTP 500 error when localsettings.php permissions set to 600/reply (3)

If the server cannot read LocalSettings.php, if you take away group and "everybody" permissions, check the owner of that file. It should be the webserver user. That way you do not need to give the group permission. Alternatively the file should at least be in his group. Then you would have to give permissions to the user and the group. In any case permissions for everybody should not be needed. If it does not work without read permissions for everybody, then the owner (and/or at least group) of the files/folders should be changed.

If you are on shared hosting and can't change the owner/group of your files/folders yourself, ask your hoster. He should be able to. ;-)