its local, my sql server is localhost. im pretty positive everything is right but when i hit test it checks stuff and then has error 404:there is no test server on this machine or the testing server for this site does not map to the [a href=\"http://www.mysite.com/folder/file.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.mysite.com/folder/file.php[/a] url. verify the url prefix maps to the root of the site. and in testing server when i hit test it says it successfully made a connection. and sometimes when i change things around it just says "an unknown error has occured" or something. and when it looks like its gonna do something, norton worm protection pops us and says its blocking an intrusion and everytime it has a different named trojan and the files it shows are from dreamweaver. could that be the problem?