according to the documentation here: http://book.seaside.st/book/advanced/deployment/deployment-preparing?_s=g_M… i set selected config, then added WAAuthConfiguration this made my site ask for a mystery username and password every time i tried to view anything on it.. so reverted back to the previous image, and did this: | application | application := WADispatcher default handlerAt: 'config'. application configuration    addParent: WAAuthConfiguration instance. application    preferenceAt: #login put: 'admin';    preferenceAt: #passwordHash put: (GRPlatform current secureHashFor: 'seaside'). application    addFilter: WAAuthenticationFilter new. which chokes here: application := WADispatcher default handlerAt: 'config'. with: upon viewing the point, i get: mesageNotUnderstood: receiver of new is nil ideas? -- ---- peace, sergio photographer, journalist, visionary http://www.CodingForHire.com http://www.coffee-black.com http://www.painlessfrugality.com http://www.twitter.com/sergio_101 http://www.facebook.com/sergio101 _______________________________________________ Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki