hey guys.. just getting back in to using a little php. have 2 simple hit counters that work fine on the production server. but on my localhost it throughs several errors. looks like a permissions thing? i am not sure if there is a setting in my php.ini file that needs to be tweaked. kind of blind to the errors. looks like a permissions thing? hit counter: Warning: fopen("counterlog.txt", "w") - Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 4 Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 5 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\counter.php on line 6 12 hit counter2: 00001 Warning: fopen("FX_DataCounter/wcbecounter.txt", "r+") - Permission denied in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 19 Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 20 Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php:19) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 21 Warning: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php:19) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 21 Warning: fseek(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 23 Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 24 Warning: fputs(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 25 Warning: flock(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 26 Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\WCBE\nav.php on line 27 any help would be great. thanks -paul -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php