On 2/14/08, Ashley Benton <<a href="mailto:meggalen@gmail.com">meggalen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex"> Did you restart the server after you changed your settings? /etc/init.d/apache2 restart If yes the fact of simply taking of the # sign should have worked, when you restart the server does it give you an error message? Meg </blockquote> You can't even imagine how many restarts my apache server has seen in the past few days, arrghhh =) No, at restart it didn't output any error message, which leads me to think that there was nothing wrong with the syntax I used (in both /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset).