MySQL and Apache continued: I have made progress and think I have been able to create a basic database and get the web server running. To clarify, I am installing and setting up a client/server configuration on my HomePC (localhost). And to not leave out any details about "messing around with apache's configuration", I will add to the story for those who have time to read it. Others can jump down to paragraph 6). 1) Initial I had Apache2, MySQL, php installed default with YaST2 from the Suse 9.1Pro media. However, but had not used these applications or enabled the http server. 2) Later I installed a tar ball for eZ publish bundled with Apache 1.3, MySQL, PHP and ImageMagic, which was installed in a temporary test directory according to: http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/installation/bundled_installation http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/installation/bundled_installation/... I enabled the http service and added port 8085 with Yast2, but didn't get the eZ publish bundle to work. 3) Then I removed the eZ publish bundle and removed and reinstalled with Yast2 the original rpms for MySQL, Apache2, PHP and ImageMagic, to start try a normal installations of eZ publish "alone" from schratch. And this is where I started this thread. I tried several times to test the web server to get it to display the Apache Installation test page, but http://localhost would not work. However, adding a port number like the previous http://localhost:8085 did work. 4) To be sure to start on a clean installation, I have now also removed /etc/Apache2 configuration folder, disabled the http service with Yast2 and removed and reinstalled the packages another time. Tested with http://localhost and http://localhost:8080 which didn't work, neither before I enabled the http server nor after I enabled the http server. 5) Then I added port 8080 to the http server with yast2. Now http://localhost still didn't work while http://localhost:8080 did display the Apache page. 6) At last I happened to try "http://localhost:80" and suddenly some(thing) (re)setting happened. Mozilla automatically changed this url automatically to "http://localhost" and displayed the Apace test page. After this also the latter url did work in Opera and Konqueror. Also the eZ publish setup wizard in my personal web-folder starts using http://localhost/~/ezp Now also the eZ publish setup wizard is started and displayed as it should, without the previous need to add port number in these alternative urls: http://localhost/~terje/ezp/index.php http://localhost/%7Eterje/ezp/index.php http://localhost/~terje/ezp http://localhost/%7Eterje/ezp From this experience it may look like the url "http://localhost" doesn't work at once, not at least when another port number has been used in the browser previously. Any idea or suggestion how and where to set "http://localhost" to work directly? I had some problems to find and verify the right entries in the long file /etc/services. I just wonder if port setting using the Yast2 http service tools, also updates both /etc/Apache2/listen.conf and /etc/services? Terje Terje