IT WORKS!!!!

Thanks all for your help.

Garvin's last bit of advice fixed it!

find "AllowOverride" in your httpd.conf file.
change the value in front of it to "ALL"
restart apache.

That's what I thought garvin was suggesting I did. It's just when I tried it I still got the Server 500 error! I've just tried renaming my .htaccess file in the serendipity directory to ...

I think Thorin's problem is just that his Apache VirtualHost has set 'AllowOverride NONE' sett, but we require 'AllowOverride ALL' for the .htaccess directive "DirectoryIndex" to execute properly.

So the only fix is to either manually edit .htaccess (and re-edit if you change configuration setting ...

whereis php
whereis php
php: /usr/bin/php /etc/php.ini /usr/lib/php /usr/share/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz
cat .htaccess for serendipity
# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex /[myusername]/serendipity/index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off
<Files *.tpl>
deny from ...

if you have shell access, run this code from shell ("filename.php" is your index.php of your s9y program)
php -q filename.php

if you get any error, please paste that here.
else if you get the HTML generated code of S9Y run:

and please copy/paste here, the premission and owner of your s9y ...

It's a default Apache installation that came bundled with SuSE 9.1.

From what I can tell suEXEC is loaded, but I'm not sure if it's configured properley. Any suggestions?

Hmmm... Exact same problem with todays snapshot.

Any bright ideas?

Sorry, I should have mentioned which version. It's 0.7.1, I'll have a go with a snapshot now, thanks .