My thanks to everybody who replied in this thread. I decided just to take the simple way out, so I added this near the top of my httpd-vhosts.conf file: <VirtualHost *> ServerName localhost ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/apache24/data/localhost/htdocs ErrorLog /var/log/error-log-localhost CustomLog /var/log/access-log-localhost combined </VirtualHost> then I created an appropriate and minimal index.html file and stuck it into the /usr/local/www/apache24/data/localhost/htdocs directory. Seems to be adequate for my needs at the moment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx