Thanks for the reply.

After my previous posting I tried renaming index.php to test.php to retry, then I got a "500 Server Error" message. I assumed the lack in the html returned was from the same error and looked in the Apache error_log. There are lines of "HTTP/1.1 500 - Internal Server Error" only and no more hint. No error or no new entry was found in the PHP error log. I have worked with several Perl/CGI scripts and know well the "500 error" is the toughest for interpretation...
Continued help would be fine.

marco