Sean - I have created a directory in the public area, and added the following to my config file: <Directory /srv/www/htdocs/KAR/websites/pub/computing/apache-test> Options None Order deny,allow Deny from all <Files *.php> Order deny,allow Deny from all </Files> </Directory> (I restarted apache with /etc/init.d/apache2 stop, then start.) If you go to that directory, you will get permission denied. If you then add the following filename, get_vars.php, you will be able to access that file - well I can from localhost anyway. Is this normal behaviour. I think I may need to re-write my config files from scratch, after carefully reading the manual. Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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