First of all, you're top posting. Google that to see why that's a bad thing if you don't know what it means. You need to set your /home/somebody/www directory to readable and executable by the 'apache' user:- chmod g+rx /home/somebody/www and then the files in that directory should be readable:- find /home/somebody/www -type f | xargs chmod 644 But you should look at mod_userdir:- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_userdir.html which might help with what you're trying to accomplish. Cheers, Phil. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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