It was saying PHP.INI was in C:\WINNT on my local web server. which is wasn't. infact it was located : C:\PHP\php.ini but in any case, i changed the configuration of PHP from ASAPI module to a CGI, now PHP properly reads from php.ini located in my c:\PHP directory, which is great, now im experiecing another problem; when i attempt to open; contact.php for example, or a majority of my .php documents, i get prompted to enter a login / password. i login in as administrator and it takes me to the document just fine, everything works splended, but how do i turn of the CGI Authencation??????? im running an IIS server on windows 2000 server =[....although id like to go to apche , not everyone agrees here