oh boy, this is embarrasing.. must have screwed that up during one of the delete and recreate routines while i was sorting out other problems and then completely missed that. after fixing that and setting the url to file:///www.. it did work as desired..
thanks a lot for that extra pair of eyes.. i haven't seen the wood for the trees..
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