incrediBILL - 2:45 pm on Jul 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

Have you tried asking Apache to validate your configuration?

I do all my Apache work on Linux but I'll assume this command works on Windows.

httpd -t -c httpd.conf

I'm sure it's something simple as it sounds like you're almost there but one minor path away from success. The kind of things that keep me up until 3am scratching my head that are immediately obvious when I jump out of bed at 7am suddenly knowing what's wrong.

Xp on top of his vista

Funny you mention Vista as I have 2 Vista machines and one runs any old Linux port like cURL, Wget, etc. and the other won't run cURL and I never could figure out why but Wget runs just fine so I had to retool all my scripts to use Wget instead of cURL so they worked on both machines.

Maybe it's a similar issue with something in the Vista config that I just never spent enough time hunting down.