I was trying to set up a number of MediaWiki 1.4 sites. I'd written a bash script that duplicates the folder hierarchy and creates hard links to the files. I then remove LocalSettings.php, and run /wiki/config. This worked for several websites, then refused to work on one. I kept getting the message: * Script URI path: /wiki Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class namespace in /Users/xxx/Sites/yyy/wiki/includes/Namespace.php on line 52 Now the "yyy" directory, in the directory of user "xxx", was symlinked into /Library/WebServer, which is the standard place on MacOS X. I went up and down that symlinked path, looking for permission problems, and found none. But the problem wasn't in the symliked path! The home directory of user "xxx" had somehow gotten perms of "-rwxr-x--x" -- there was no read permission for others, which included the user "www" that Apache runs under! User "xxx" and I had the same group, so I was able to go into the directory with no problem. I thought it a rather strange error message for a permission problem several levels up! :::: Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won’t either. -- Joseph Fischer :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>