I made a mistake changing my /home/username/pubIic_html/ ownership to username:user
 

Please could someone help me. I do have a dedicated linux server and my root document is /home/melieco/public_html. I issued this command "chown -R melieco:melieco /home/melieco/public_html/ and after this I could not access my domain from the browser. I do have internal errors and php_admin_flag errors.

If you are running apache, than it must be running under the username 'apache'. All the stuff that sits on '/home/melieco/public_html/' should be owned by apache username and apache group (If you are running apache httpd server)

Do the following on the command line: (If you have apache httpd server)

chown -R apache:apache /home/melieco/public_html/

Hope this helps

It doesn't and shouldn't be owned by the webserver user.
It just needs to be readable by apache.

The following command will print out the user and group of the Apache web server:

or
Then, execute

Hi Skipper123,
I do appreciate your help. I have done it and the error I received now is that " You have chosen to open
Which is a: application/x-httpd-php(111 bytes) from http://www.melie.co.nz. What should firefox do with this file?"

My index file is a php file , I guess that why it requires the php application. I am using suPhP and suExec and it is being selected using the cpanel. May be I have to change the owner of cgi-bin and *.php files.

I do appreciate your suggestions.

I would recommend you to check the following URL for troubleshooting the error:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pd-php-524356/