I cannot replicate the problem. Maybe if you send me an tarball with an accurate picture of the situation I can find some subtlety. But when I use the file you've given and put some HTML file in the "htdocs" directory, I get the expected result.<div> </div><div>Jay <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Giles Roberts <<a href="mailto:giles@gilesroberts.com">racketusers.20.gilesroberts@spamgourmet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Dear Jay, I can replicate the problem with the test static example from the web server tutorial: #lang web-server/insta (define (start request) '(html (head (title "Testing")) (link ((rel "stylesheet") (href "/test-static.css") (type "text/css"))) (body (h1 "Testing") (h2 "This is a header") (p "This is " (span ((class "hot")) "hot") ".")))) (static-files-path "htdocs") My html file is in htdocs. I was expecting the html to be served by the web server without any additional coding. Is there something I'm missing? The server is run from DrRacket 5.0.2 and the OS is Vista Home Premium SP2. Regards Giles. </blockquote></div> -- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </div>