I continually time out on attempted connection from a different machine. I now have about 200 different combinations that don't work and any help7pointers might save me from a nervous breakdown. Using trace appears to resolve correctly to the DNS server (afraid.org) My config file has these entries Listen (my actual IP address):80 ServerName (my actual IP address) DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs" (This directory contains a directory for the web site and a simple index file) <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"> # Options Indexes FollowSymLinks # AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> THEN ACCEPT ALL DEFAULTS UNTIL.... <VirtualHost *> ServerName www.schoolrun.net #Other directives etc..... </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *> ServerName www.schoolrun.net #Other directives etc.... </VirtualHost> Clearly I have misunderstood something in the documentation and I would be very grateful for a pointer that will help me out of my current difficulties. Thanks for reading Peter