> It's a matter of rights. I guess that jlb41 & apache are not in the same
> primary group either, so the directory /home/jlb41/public_html would
> need to be writable by other (and that might become a security/deface
> issue; you might want to play in a deeper sub-directory in production).
>
> First take note of the rights from "ls -ld /home/jlb41/public_html"
> then try "chmod 777 /home/jlb41/public_html"
> and try again php for system("date >new_test_file")

Here's what I got back from "chmod 777 /home/jlb41/public_html":

drwxr-xr-x. 11 jlb41 jlb41 4096 Mar 12 14:05 /home/jlb41/public_html

system("date >new_test_file") works through PHP now.

> If it works, then try povray.

I changed the file permissions for object.png to 666 and it works now! Thank you
so much for your help. I really appreciate it!

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