Hi Richard, thanks for your reply. No, it was not a bug in PHP or something else. The misconfiguration was that the apache2 was configured by default to using .htaccess-files. That is why the htdocs- root-script could be run, but no script from any subdir. Thanks for your help anyway. Oliver. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php