I think that this has to do with these lines inserted at the top of the VirtualHost configuration: -------------------------------------------- AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php5 SuexecUserGroup myuser psacln DocumentRoot "/var/www/httpdocs/web" ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/dev_error_log <Directory "/var/www/httpdocs/web"> Options ExecCGI Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Allow from all FCGIWrapper /var/www/bin/php5 .php5 FCGIWrapper /var/www/bin/php5 .php Order Allow,Deny </Directory> ----------------------------- Facts: - I did: []# chown -R myuser /var/www - I did: []# chgrp -R psacln /var/www - I did: []# chmod -R 755 /var/www (so everybody can execute and read all the files) - 'psacln' group does exist in '/etc/group' - 'myuser' user does exist in '/etc/passwd' - '/var/www/bin/php5' does exist --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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