Thanks to all who responded to my newbie pleas. It's very much appreciated. Well, Zope's up and running -- which is both good and bad. Good because it's now looking more interesting than ever; bad because I've got a lot of work to do! :-) Unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly what the problem was. I went through many different installs and configurations/reconfigurations. My final configuration that I've settled on uses apache-ssl and no browser authentication. I'm thinking (maybe wishful thinking, but...:-) that I had the configuration right several times and that probably the single biggest item of correction was Chuck's suggestion to kill the python processes to force a clean restart. I was killing Apache like a crazed cowboy after every config file edit, but never thought to do the same to python. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / (redwards@golgotha.net) | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | because lockups should only be for convicts.