after setting up apache server (on Enterprice Linux CentOS)i cant view it via browser. from the local machine when i enter: http://localhost/index.html i will get responce saying: "The requested URL index.html was not found on this server" i did create this simple index.html file and dump it in the documentroot. how do i succesfully run the test?

Try http://localhost. If not showing the default apache page, check if httpd(apache webserver is running) by typing $ps aux | grep httpd if this not showing any processes with httpd(of course it will display the above command), try starting httpd as root #/etc/init.d/httpd start (you can check httpd is running by #/etc/init.d/httpd status) If httpd is running and still not showing the page, then problem !!. Will need to check the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf settings and other network settings of your computer.. which you could get from internet faqs.. It is not possible checking the machine without having access to it ;). http://www.tofftech.co.uk ctj