I never heard of that but I could be wrong. However I use Jetico Personal Firewall v. 1.0.1.61 - the last freeware version. I love it because it gives me control even on the flags of the TCP packets. Today I also changed permission for the whole folder /logs. Right click on the folder, choose Properties | Security. Not too much to change, just... (1 hour later) Hm how amazing. I stopped the server, unchecked the read-only box, reopened the folder property and it was checked again. So it does not depend for sure from the server. I continued experimenting. Unchecked the read-only, climbing all the branches, every time setting off the box and soon after re-checking if the box was checked, and it was! Until I reached the root of the partition. Zac! Again! It turned out that partition is a network mapped drive, so that I can access that drive from another machine. Hm, I changed owner and given permission to everybody. Nothing. Uniserver did not start. Neither by cash. Now, inasmuch my mom made a smart guy, in the Server_Start.bat around line 23, after: set closeit=%programit%close.bat %Disk% I added: attrib -R "d:\Uniform Server\diskw\usr\local\apache2\logs" Hum, nothing, no sensible change. So I changed tactics. If it does not depends from the permission, from what ? I began tweaking the apache conf. I changed the log line from: CustomLog "|rotatelogs logs/access.%Y.%m.log" combined to: CustomLog "|rotatelogs.exe logs/access.%Y.%m.log" combined Bam! It worked. The bastard needed the extension .exe appended to rotatelogs. Which is weird by the way. So, considered it was working, I changed rotatelogs with cronolog, which is more flexible. Highly recommended. Now it did not work again! @#%$£& Only problem, who knows why, cronolog requires the whole path. So now the line in conf is: CustomLog "|w:/usr/local/apache2/bin/cronolog.exe w:/usr/local/apache2/logs/access.%Y.%m.log" combined and everybody is happy. Of course cronolog can be copied in any folder. The only problem now there is the Dos box left open, and in task manager there are TWO instances of cronolog. But it works... After 2 years I can have my New Year party! yoo-hoo So perhaps we can consider this thread closed. But if any one else is experimenting with the same stuff, and finds something useful, please let me know. P.S. Hey Olajide I cannot pronounce that, do you mind if I call you Olaf or something? Nice to meet you. My name is Vince. Good job with this server. 4-5 days ago I also have sent you an email from your blog (offering server space, beta testing, development of anything you don't have time, and so on). I got an error from the page, couldn't post or something, did you get it?