hi joost, thanks for your help. this works for me now: --- /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.bak 2011-01-14 01:57:49.482223496 +1100 +++ /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default 2011-01-14 01:59:11.190323876 +1100 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> - Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews + Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all ta, jack. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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