Hi Gunnar, It turned out there were some permission problems that the hosting company had to correct. My account is on a shared-server, and some things have to reference a virtual root, and some things require full paths. The paths for the config variables had to reference the full paths. So, you were right that my original pathing was wrong.
Soooo, now it works...sort of. I can run mhastart.pl, login, and use 'Add' to successfully create an empty archive. But the formatting of maillist.html and threads.html do not include the formatting changes that were in my rcfile.txt. It is the same rcfile.txt I used successfully under Windows. I unquoted $mrc, $archive, and $mbox on the mhastart admin display, and the actual paths shown are correct. (That is, the rcfile.txt and authoridx.txt are both in the directory specified by $mhonarc.) Any thoughts on why mhonarc is not seeing the rcfile.txt? Thanks, Tim