[Tue Feb 03 16:30:48 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:48 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:49 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8i mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.2.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:49 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:49 2009] [notice] Parent: Created child process 6432
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:50 2009] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:50 2009] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:51 2009] [notice] Child 6432: Child process is running
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:51 2009] [notice] Child 6432: Acquired the start mutex.
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:51 2009] [notice] Child 6432: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:51 2009] [notice] Child 6432: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Tue Feb 03 16:30:51 2009] [notice] Child 6432: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Tue Feb 03 16:37:33 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] client denied by server configuration: C:/xampp/security/htdocs/lang.php, referer:
http://localhost/xampp/navi.php[Tue Feb 03 16:54:03 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Feb 03 16:54:13 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Feb 03 16:55:17 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/scdc_files
[Tue Feb 03 16:57:31 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Feb 03 16:59:09 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
[Tue Feb 03 16:59:26 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/xampp/htdocs/CFIDE
ok heres the error log, Itried what you said int he last comment and it was A NO GO!!
i orignally used fro a web address
http://localhost/brucesenvironment.co.uk/index.phpi just used file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/brucesenvironment.co.uk/index.php
getting a bit stumped now but just for your info i did earlier on have three attemps at installing this so i didnt know wheather or not th error log would have reme,bered anything from those installs.(I only have one install now though(1 set of files))