OK, everything works fine now - so I can get to work on the website... For those looking for the solution: 1. I reinstalled httpd & php 2. I didn't edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 3. I moved all the files I wanted to serve to httpd's default DocumentRoot 4. I changed the permissions on that directory so I could also work on it and voilá it works. Thanks all for you patience. Duncan