> Now I'm struggling with the seemingly simple problem Sometimes simple problems have simple solutions! For example: > # ls -al Alex.html index.php hello-world.php > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 599 Sep 29 15:49 Alex.html > -rw-r--r-- 1 afarber afarber 33 Jul 29 11:32 hello-world.php > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5631 Jun 27 09:38 index.php Why is Alex.html only readable and the php files readable *and* writable? Did you try making the php files *only readable* and see what happens? This may not be relevant to the problem, but I have observed in Ubuntu that the apache server by default likes to make files it serves executable. Not sure why, just a simple observation. Hope this helps, Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100929/5efc3ce6/attachment-0005.html>