... commonhttpd.conf
sorry guys, I was looking only at httpd2.conf - there is a whole lot more to try before hassling you again! Sorry.
Anton
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somewhere around line 2000 was the offending line... <Directory /var/www/html>
everything is disallowed up the top, so me setting it to that in httpd2.conf does squat. It has to be changed here too.
now got it going. Chris, I saw something there about running from the public_html dir but at the top of commonhttpd.conf it says something about "running as ~User" or whatever - can you explain what that means? I just have it as my DocumentRoot at the moment, but presumably that is less advised than the public_html?
Cheers to everyone for helping such a dork!
Anton
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