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Note Submitter: sprater@servicom2000.com ---- Concerning Unix permissions of PHP files: as the earlier commentator noted, they need to be readable by the Unix user or group that owns the webserver process. The command "chmod 644 <file>.php" will do this. But the mode "644" makes the file readable for *any user* on the Unix system. Many PHP programs (if not most) contain sensitive database connection information, such as username and password. As a security precaution, if the PHP script I write performs a database connection with embedded user and password info, then I change the mode to readonly for owner, and make the owner the same as the webserver process owner. If my webserver runs as user "nobody", then: chown nobody file.php chmod 600 file.php You'll need superuser privileges to do a chown.