"Marcus J. Coles" wrote: > all I want to be able to do is: /* if I understand correctly */ : have multiple "document roots" on one (local) machine. Apache's Named Virtual Server facility is your friend :-) You can have your regular machine name point to one document root for administrivia http://squalor/somesite.com/users/ http://squalor/somesite.com/logs/ while http://misery/ has the somesite.com/web/ directory as root ... Even works on Win*, just add the alternate name(s) to your hosts file (W2K = /winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts), add the virtual server(s) to your httpd.conf file, restart Apache, and away you go ... HTH! -- H* Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- hassan at webtuitive.com Webtuitive Design ---(+1) 408-938-0567 --- http://www.webtuitive.com -- creating dynamic Web sites and applications since 1994 --