Well, I solved it even though I have no idea what was going on. After disabling UAC, I happened to glance at the httpd.conf again and it was back to the default. I edited it AGAIN to set the correct configuration and lo and behold, now I can run httpd as a service. Did UAC do that? If it did, it's just plain evil... Damon --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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