I have two config files located in: /etc/svnauth and var/www/svnauth I have given read, write access to for both files like shown below chown -R apache:apache /etc/svnauth chmod -R 770 /etc/svnauth chown -R apache:apache /var/www/svnauth chmod -R 770 /var/www/svnauth When I try to read these two files using pear/Config_Lite, /etc/svnauth always fails. I can successfully read the /var/www/svnauth file Any reasons for this? What am I missing here Following is the error message i get: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Config_Lite_Exception_Runtime' with message 'file not readable: /etc/svnauth' in /var/www/html/svnmanager/Config/Lite.php:112 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/svnmanager/index.php(60): Config_Lite->read('/etc/svnauth') #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/svnmanager/Config/Lite.php on line 112