I am running mediawiki as a localhost setup for development/learning. The environment is XAMPP (so, Apache, MySQL, PhP, etc.) in WinXP. Everything is going well ... except for "uploads". I have read this, and everything else I can find on enabling uploads. For some reason I keep getting this error message: "The upload directory ($/images) is not writable by the webserver." I have checked the apache aliases (none), I have set the flag in the mediawiki configuration, checked the directory names/path, checked the directory properties in Windoze, etc. I still cannot get past that error message. I tried simply copying a .PNG to the /images directory, but of course that can't be found by mediawiki. I have read the information at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows and it is (more than?) likely that something needs set in my Apache's httpd.conf file, but I can't work out the options (have looked here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#options) Can anyone help me to get past this one?! Thanks! David. -- David Reimer Edinburgh, UK djreimer(a)gmail.com