Hi, We are having an odd problem with certain files showing up as "access denied" "403 forbidden" in Apache2, CentOS 4 (based on RHES4), PHP5, but this is not a PHP related problem specifically.. For example, the file "bad.html" gives these errors. (13)Permission denied: access to /bad.html denied * If we rename bad.html to something else, it still gives the error. * If we edit bad.html and add more text, it still gives the error. * Even if we chmod 777 bad.html, it still gives the error. Was 644 by default. * If we do "cat bad.html > good.html" then good.html shows up fine but bad.html still gives that error. * If we do "cp bad.html good.html" then good.html shows up fine but bad.html still gives the error. * If we md5sum bad.html and good.html they match exactly yet one gives the error and the other doesn't. * If it was hard drive corruption I'm assuming the md5sum would reveal a difference?? The inode number for the bad.html is lower than the other files that are working (4851836 when the working files are in the 615000's) but if the file md5sum's ok and doesn't show up corrupted when I view it I wouldn't think this would matter. * Even with mod_rewrite, mod_userdir etc disabled this problem still happens. <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/website.com/www ServerName website.com ErrorLog /var/www/vhosts/website.com/log/error_log CustomLog /var/www/vhosts/website.com/log/access_log common DirectoryIndex index.php index.html <Directory "/var/www/vhosts/website.com/www"> AllowOverride All Options +Indexes Allow from all Order allow,deny </Directory> </VirtualHost> There are no .htaccess files in /var/www/vhosts/website.com/www server www # ls -lahi good.html bad.html 4851836 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Jun 17 10:08 bad.html 6145907 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jun 17 07:38 good.html Any suggestions greatly appreciated!! Jeremy --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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