right..I noticed that later..(I am confused with http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0006fg&topic_id=21&topic=web%2fdb posting by Rob Mayoff at arsdigita..on error code 200...) anyhow, i checked the permissions and all are with root...but I am using openacs-apache rpm..so i am running apache server as root..in that case it should work, right?