Well, being a Systems Tech by profession and impatient by nature, I managed to solve my problem with the path to /default/ templates. For the record, the clues were found under the installation directory (/usr/local/koha/ by default) in intranet/modules/C4/Output.pm Reading through the function calls, I found that gettemplate() swaps the definition of the $htdocs directory based on being called with param string 'intranet'. The value it wants to use is taken from the Context->config() - which is defined in /etc/koha.conf The global koha.conf file needed two additional keys: intrahtdocs=/usr/local/koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl opachtdocs=/usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl I have set both of these with absolute paths, although I think from a *very* quick read of the rest of Output.pm that partial paths (relative to the config values intranetdir= and opacdir= ) might be enough ... For the record. Cheers, Erik