I just installed a clean Fedora Core 5 system, with Apache 2.2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5.1.2. If I create a index.php with phpinfo() in it, and put that in my webroot, it displays perfectly fine. If I create a subdir under my webroot, and copy the index.php to there, it displays just fine. Here is where the fun stuff starts. I download a php-application such as phpMyAdmin. I extract it, and move the extracted files to a subdirectory on my webroot, so I have this: /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin, and all the phpMyAdmin stuff in there. It contains an index.php. (I followed the instructions in the phpMyAdmin and created a config file for it.) If I navigate to http://host/phpMyAdmin, I get the following error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. If I try a different application, such as a CMS system, or message board, I get the same error. Any ideas? I think it has to do with my apache config, but I have no idea where to look. Possibly the re-write rules?