I followed this howto with success thankyou falko my question is how can the index.html be show on a web page? how can the mix (ln -s -sys link) be show on a web page? they are both outside the www.mydomain.com directory here is my /var/www total 20 drwx--x--x 3 root root 4096 Mar 9 19:10 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Mar 7 21:45 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 9 19:10 mix -> /var/lib/mix/results -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4110 Feb 7 2002 index.html drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 7 21:45 www.mydomin.com here is my defualt layout from apache. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.mydomain.com ServerAdmin [email protected] DocumentRoot /var/www/www.mydomain.com <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/www.mydomain.com> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> </VirtualHost> wiseman