Hello, I hope someone can help me, I am at a loss....... for some reason, apache will not accept any doc roots created on /data3 ( it is a sata drive), or any of the sata drives it is bizzare. if i create a doc root on /randy or /home/randy , apache starts, but if i create a doc root in /data3 or /data3/randy (notice below the permissions are owned by apache and i have also tried 777'g them) when i start apache, it just get [FAILED] and nothing in the log file hopefully someone can help me out here is the basics apache 2.0.54 fedora 4 df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 75613536 3112424 68598124 5% / /dev/sda1 473086160 330230624 118436336 74% /data1 /dev/sdb1 473086160 106560 448560400 1% /data2 /dev/sdd1 473086160 106560 448560400 1% /data4 /dev/sdc1 473086160 132210384 316456576 30% /data3 ls -ls / total 166 4 drwxrwxrwx 5 apache apache 4096 Jan 6 12:14 data3 8 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 6 11:58 home 8 drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 Jan 6 11:54 randy ls -ls /data3 total 822968 16 drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 16384 Dec 15 04:01 lost+found 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Jan 6 12:14 randy Thanks for any help --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx