yeah, i've used listen, namevirtualhost......and any combination ot the 2.

i dont think dns is the issue and both addresses are arriving as told to do. the problem is with apache not recognizing the names.

which ever one is on top in the virtual server list, is displayed for both addresses. i have gone over and over the apache documentation, and see where it talks about the 1st serving as default if things dont match.

but everything is the same in my virtual set ups except for the servernames and documentroot.

i did get it working locally yesterday, and copied the set up via the config file. when i tried to move to port 81 things got screwy again, so i copied my original config set up that was working, and it wouldn’t work.

i am beginning to think it's like dreamweaver or golive----even if you delete something, it still may (or probably) leaves a bit of code behind which just f's things up down the road. so again today, i did another fresh instal of panther, that makes #...........9 in about 13 days.awesome.

but hey.....at least i'm learning a lot.