Setting permissions of WHMCS configuration file

I have a problem here.

Following the recommendations in the WHMCS documentation I set the permissions of the configuration file to 400. At first it works and the WHMCS health check is showing 0 red warnings "Needing Attention". But in a while, probably 24 hours or after a cronjob run, the settings of the configuration file are reverted back to 640 and the health message is back to "1 Needing Attention".

Why is this happening, I cannot figure out. Please, advise!

Hello DomainKiosk,

Thanks for your post.

I'd recommend reaching out to your hosting provider to see if there is any logs of when your configuration.php permissions are being reset, the cron does not change the settings of the configuration.php file so I don't think it would be coming from there

I have a problem here.

Following the recommendations in the WHMCS documentation I set the permissions of the configuration file to 400. At first it works and the WHMCS health check is showing 0 red warnings "Needing Attention". But in a while, probably 24 hours or after a cronjob run, the settings of the configuration file are reverted back to 640 and the health message is back to "1 Needing Attention".

Why is this happening, I cannot figure out. Please, advise!

Hello,

That's quite strange, did you at anypoint restore a backup or re-upload the file via FTP? If not then it may be something on the server that's resetting the permission perhaps a firewall or something. As Chris suggested it's best to contact your hosting provider to assist with this particular issue.

Yeah, WHMCS isn't setting your permissions. That's not part of what it does

talk to your hosting provider, find out who's doing it on that end.