Hi Neil. The require and include family of constructs are 'able' to read absolute paths, but the resolve the paths as local physical paths on the filesystem, and not as absolute paths by the virtual root. -- Running 'ojtibi' on '127.0.0.1' (BATCH_OPTIMISTIC mode). "Live free() or die()." -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php