hi i am using the php template first time and for it i am using smarty and for that i had referred the the url http://smarty.php.net/quick_start.php and i have done the all procedure according the url refrence. My apache user name is apache and my document root is /var/www/html and so i have changed according to this in my smarty configuration. and i had executed the same example given in the url. but i am not able to execute the pages on browser and the error in httpd/error_log is: PHP Fatal error: Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/var/www/smarty/templates_c'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /usr/lib/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1088 please help me to sort it out. i am using the fedora-3 as OS. and php-4.3 with thanks Sunit PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/