ok.. here goes :P I set up apache with mod_php3 and mod_php3-mysql no problems there.. in fact it works great! the problem is I want my database to be accessed using ssl, it's all using php3 interface, and I haven't been able to get php3 working with apache-ssl. is there anyone who knows how to get them set up? how I might go about doing this or if they have a php3 module for the ssl version of apache? thanks in advance. Joel