in /var/log/httpd/error_log it is saying Read-only file system. This is not the case the actual file system is fine. I can "echo 1 > file" just fine. Newly built VM. my CGI seems to be running just fine - as long as I echo to stdout - but when I try to write to a file - I get the above error. What is different on Alma 10 - that to httpd its read-only selinux is turned off. I copied my configs over from Alma 9 which work . and rebooted Thanks Jerry