Root dir of a vhost: drwxr-xr-x 41 root root 4096 Sep 29 08:51 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 yango cvs 4096 Oct 16 19:04 barcode Inside barcode: total 364 drwxr-xr-x 2 yango cvs 4096 Oct 16 19:04 . drwxr-xr-x 8 yango cvs 4096 Oct 16 19:07 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 273020 Oct 16 18:52 arial.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 1483 Oct 16 18:51 barcode.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 138 Oct 16 18:51 black.png -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 2629 Oct 16 18:51 encode_bars.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 20 Oct 16 19:04 index.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 14487 Oct 16 18:53 php-barcode.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 6134 Oct 16 18:51 README -rwxr-xr-x 1 yango cvs 138 Oct 16 18:51 white.png Then, accessing http://vhost.com/barcode/index.php I get: access_log: 125.73.130.172 - - [16/Oct/2006:19:07:53 -0300] "GET /barcode/index.php HTTP/1.1" 403 338 [Mon Oct 16 19:07:53 2006] [error] [client 125.73.130.172] (13)Permission denied: access to /barcode/index.php denied