OH crap.... I'm truly an idiot!!!! Beat myself to death on this.... and I don't seem to be able to 'see' that I have made an idiot's mistake forgetting to include public_html in the path to my directory. Right there... all the time... right IN my FACE!!!
I'm so sorry for wasting everyone's time. <hugely embarrassed>.
I am just a little surprised that apache even restarted though. Most of the time if a directory doesn't exist, it's pretty flaky. I think that's why I wasn't really looking so hard at that. Man, I checked the spelling of the path about 100 times... but...........
I'll have the better half cook up a hot noodle right now, and start receiving my 50 lashes!
Thanks John Hinton <with much egg on his face>
Hello, John.
Don't hit to strong.. often there are so many options to look for that obvious things are quite difficult to find out.
Enjoy..
Daniel