--------------<br />Note: Every file in the images directory is 0666. In the default theme and the core theme they are 0644<br /><br />18SEP15: SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File &quot;/home/utu168/public_html/smf/Themes/theme-no-guest/images/index.php&quot; is writeable by group<br /><br />http://www.zyxware.com/articles/5012/solved-internal-server-error-softexception-in-application-cpp-256-file-public-htmlindex-php-is-writeable-by-group<br /><br />This is clearly a permissions error and we checked the file permissions. The &quot;/home/mysiteuser/public_html/index.php&quot; was having file permission &#039;0664&#039;. The default file permission should be &#039;0644&#039;. In order to fix the error we did the following and that worked for us.<br />Change the file permissions from &#039;0664&#039; to &#039;0644&#039; <br /><br />----------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/cpanel/file_permissions.htm<br /><br />