Dear folks, When I run a CGI program as such, hostname works. When I run it under Aapche::Registry, it fails. Can anyone understand why? Sorry, I am new to all this. [error] Cannot get host name of local machine at /home/httpd/dbi/frame_control.cgi line 13 use Sys::Hostname; my $hostname = hostname(); my $URL = "http://$hostname/dbi/"; -- Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Electrical & Communications Engineering Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (852) 2436 8660, (825) 2436 8674 Fax: (852) 2436 8643 pgp ID: 7529555D fingerprint: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B