hello, I have my site config as below on ubuntu: I am running a perl cgi which is trying to write a file under /var/www/testwebsite.com/www/data folder, but i am getting error like this: [error] [client xxxxx] could not open /var/www/testwebsite.com/www/data/testfile: Permission denied, referer: .... the script and folder everything is owned by same ubuntu user. when i run the script from command prompt i get no error, files are created successfully. I have also tried to save the files to /var/www/testwebsite.com/data folder but that also failed.(gave same error) plz. help. here is the site config: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName testwebsite.com ServerAlias www.testwebsite.com ServerAdmin admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ServerSignature Off DocumentRoot /var/www/testwebsite.com/www <Directory /> Options +FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/testwebsite.com/www/> Options +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews +Includes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/testwebsite.com/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/var/www/testwebsite.com/cgi-bin/"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch +Includes AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl #was added Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> DirectoryIndex /cgi-bin/index.pl </VirtualHost> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx