Hey Dan. If you are using a popular distro of Linux it should come with an apache configuration already configured for this. I use dDebian and Slackware and they both work. As for the web pages you should make them 644 for pages and 755 for scripts. This works for me. The public_html directory needs to be 755. You may want to look at the httpd.conf file to check out if there is a reference to public_html. It may be commented. It would be under a directory directive. hth. -- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real good, you will get out of it. Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net