Hi Edwin, thanks for the quick response.

demo9 was a typo on my behalf (another account on my server).

I have done the following

chown demo10m:demo10m /home/demo10m/public_html

which gives me:
drwxr-xr-x 25 demo10m demo10m 4096 Aug 2 13:26 /home/demo10m/public_html/

I then set pubic_html to 755 but links still come up as forbidden

For now I am going to set logs and tmp to 777 as this also seems to resolve the issue but it woud have been nice to get the bottom of this ownership and permissions issue ..

Which is the owner of the hello.php file in this directory ?

-rw-r--r-- 1 demo10m demo10m 8400 Aug 2 14:33 /home/demo10m/public_html/hello.php

Try to modify the "hello.php" file to put in comment the unlink statement in aim to keep the remporary file on your disk.
(line 114 and 119)
When done, put a chmod 777 on your directory in aim to be able to have the symbolic alllowed and also keep the temporary file created.

Once you will have the temporary files remaining on your disk, you will be able to know which owner is used by apaches.

This will allow you compare with the one of your directory and hello.php file.

Hi Edwin I recompiled Apache with suPHP and all is OK now.

Good news for you.
Thank you for the feedback.
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