i found the solution in one of the comments listed here... Chapter 22. Installed as CGI binary. i didn't do the "Action php-script /cgi-bin/php" part b/c php was already running fine for my virtual hosts. 3 days later - WHEW!!!!!! http://us2.php.net/security.cgi-bin PHP CGI with VirtualHosts. This is what I found out while trying to get php to work as CGI with Apache VirtualHosts. By enabling 'force-cgiredirects', you *must*: 1) set 'cgi.fix_pathinfo=1' in php.ini 2) leave doc_root commented out (php.ini also) If you miss item 1, the apache logs will show 'unexpected T_STRING' in the php binary. If you miss item 2, you'll only see 'No input file specified.', instead of the expected output. You can then turn on the php support for a particular vhost by defining: Action php-script /cgi-bin/php inside the corresponding <VirtualHost> directive. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php