Hi Sam > The permissions in the /apache/logs directory are all Lower case A? No 2? See below. > -rw-rw-r-- > > however, in my attempt (temporarily) to get things working, i did > chmod 777 on all directories - and this still didn't work (i got the > rewrite lock error still). [snip] > > > > RewriteLog "/Library/Apache2/logs/ /Library? Upper case A? 2? > > rewrite.log" > > RewriteLogLevel 0 >From the docs, http://127.0.0.1/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritelog it says: 'The RewriteLog directive sets the name of the file...' So 1) It's a file name not a dir name 2) Ensure all components of the path are meaningful 3) Patch httpd.conf and restart the server -- Ron Savage ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://savage.net.au/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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