Bug#777717: apache2-mpm-prefork: "Permission denied" on unexistent .htaccess

[Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>]

Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Version: 2.2.22-13+deb7u4
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

It produces errors like the following on unexistent .htaccess files. There should be no such message.

[Wed Feb 11 20:05:51 2015] [crit] [client 220.181.108.140] (13)Permission denied: /var/www/theses/web/sites/all/modules/ctools/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable, referer: http://theses.portonvictor.org/node/776


-- Package-specific info:
List of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load:
  actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile
  authz_host authz_user autoindex cgi deflate dir env mime
  negotiation php5 php5_cgi reqtimeout rewrite setenvif ssl status
  suexec suphp
List of enabled php5 extensions:
  curl gd mcrypt mysql mysqli pdo pdo_mysql

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages apache2-mpm-prefork depends on:
ii  apache2.2-bin     2.2.22-13+deb7u4
ii  apache2.2-common  2.2.22-13+deb7u4

apache2-mpm-prefork recommends no packages.

apache2-mpm-prefork suggests no packages.

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