Perhaps you could consider an apache configuration that would add a trailing slash (in all the right cases) and change: http://www.mysite.com/phpmyadmin to http://www.mysite.com/phpmyadmin/ Check here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_dir.html Hope this helps, Joe >> If I go to the /phpadmin directoy >>(http://my.ip.number/phpadmin) I get a >>404. If I go to http://my.ip.number/phpadmin/ I get the index page for >>phpMyAdmin. >Why? >John, >I had this problem when creating the alias in httpd.conf. The alias I >created was pointing towards /phpmyadmin/ and not /phpmyadmin -- maybe you >did the same mistake ? >Just rewrite the alias to /phpmyadmin with no trailing slash and everything >should be ok. Of course if there's no alias but it's a real directory I >can't help you more than that.