Hello, thanks for your replies. The reason for my PHP script failure
Warning: file_get_contents(http://94.100.188.5/robots.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No route to host have been 1) missing /var/www/etc/resolv.conf (the hosts I had already) and 2) I forgot that I had an anti-PHP rule in pf.conf: # don't allow PHP-worms to propagate block out quick log on $ext_if proto { tcp, udp } all user www After those changes (and the following lines in /var/www/conf/php.ini) allow_url_fopen = On # needed for phpBB's template editing: suhosin.post.max_value_length = 65000000 suhosin.request.max_value_length = 65000000 my PHP script works fine under chrooted Apache again. (Yes, the PHP's error message about "route" had been misleading :-) Regards Alex